num_pages: 224
description: 'Prose from a poet and a personal take on the spectacles' Chris Packham author of Fingers in the Sparkle JarBritain is a nation of bird-lovers. However few of us fully appreciate the sheer scale variety and drama of our avian life. From city-centre hunters to vast flocks straight out of the Arctic wilderness much-loved dawn songsters to the exotic invaders of supermarket car parks a host of remarkable wildlife spectacles are waiting to be discovered right outside our front doors.In A Sky Full of Birds poet and nature writer Matt Merritt shares his passion for birdwatching by taking us to some of the great avian gatherings that occur around the British isles  from ravens in Anglesey and raptors on the Wirral to Kent nightingales and Scottish capercallies. By turns lyrical informative and entertaining he shows how natural miracles can be found all around us if only we know where to look for them.
language: English
title: A Sky Full of Birds
publisher: Random House UK