Walking with Wildlife - a year on a Scottish estate

Alan Stewart has a long association with the 13,000 acre Dupplin Estate in Perthshire. Over the course of a year, he revisits and walks over the whole estate to observe and record what changes there have been in farming practice, the environment and wildlife in the intervening years since his youth. His written record is a culmination of a lifetime’s knowledge of wildlife and the country environment.

He takes the reader to share the many magical and precious moments during his many walks. He describes a goshawk teaching her young to hunt, whooper swans arriving from Iceland, red squirrels stocking up for winter and a goosander with her newly-hatched brood. Brown hares and deer feature on many of the walks, with the author getting close enough in many cases to take intimate photographs of birds and animals.

He observes and listens to the lovely songs of a wide range of avian summer visitors to the estate, including whitethroat, sedge warbler, garden warbler, willow warbler, redstart, spotted flycatcher and chiffchaff.

Walking with Wildlife is an up-to-the-minute, sharply and lovingly told account of the state of the natural environment in Perthshire.

About Alan Stewart’s previous books:

‘The author is ever alert, taking time to note the beauty of his surrounding, the birds and birdsong.’

Scots Magazine

‘Narrated in a charming informal style – a pleasure to read.’

Scottish Association of Country Sports Journal

‘Confidently written, conversational, highly educational – quite an inspiration.’

BirdGuides

‘Britain’s foremost wildlife detective.’

Scottish Field