Tower and Town, September 2022 (view the full edition)Hannah Bourne-Taylor - FledglingHannah Bourne-Taylor grew up loving birds. When she moved with her husband to Ghana she couldn't have anticipated how her life would change for ever through her unexpected encounters with nature, and the bonds she formed. Struggling with isolation from friends and family in the Ghanaian rural grasslands, she found a huge source of solace in her relationship with the animal life around her and in particular with two wild birds. She tells the extraordinary story of how she rescued a swift and a mannikin finch, hand-reared them and set them free in the wild, and in doing so found happiness and hope. Viginia Reekie |