David Glynne FoxDavid Glynne Fox was born in Carlton, Nottingham in 1948 and has been a lifelong naturalist and has practised falconry since his early teens. Having written many natural history and falconry related articles for several magazines, he is also the authr of three published books. His first, Garden of Eagles - The Life and Times of a Falconer, was published in 1984. His second, Eagle Falconry - A Personal Perspective, was published in 2012 and his third, Artist Falconers - The Falconry and Raptor Art of David Morrison Reid-Henry and Ron David Digby, was published in 2017. He lectures widely on many wildlife subjects, using images from his own extensive collection of wildlife photographs and was for a few years, a visiting lecturer for the MSc degree in Biological Imaging and Photography at Nottingham University. He is a wildlife photographer with many years of experience, particularly concerning macro, or close-up photography of insects and wildflowers etc. He is a passionate historian of the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879, for which he has a doctorate, and also the Alamo of 1836: the Plains Indians of North America, and the Highland Clans of Scotland.He is also a co-opted member as eagle specialist on the United Kingdom Hawk Board and a past Chairman of the Midlands region of the British Falconers' Club and a consultant for the British Archives of Falconry. He was also responsible for forming The East Midlands Hawking Club in 1968 and the current British Falconers' Club Eagle Group. He has trained and flown many different species of birds of prey, including kestrels and herewith lies his fascination for anything to do with the film Kes, and the book from which it was derived, A Kestrel for a Knave. David still lives in Nottingham with his wife Gill and has two married children, Joanne and David, and for the last sixteen years, has been flying a male Golden Eagle named Star. Read More Read Less