“Every minute was magical, every single thing it did was fascinating and everything it didn’t do was equally wondrous, and to be sat there, with a kestrel, a real live kestrel, my own real live kestrel on my wrist! I felt like I’d climbed through a hole in heaven's fence.” The naturalist and presenter of Springwatch and Secrets of our Living Planet introduces his exquisite coming-of-age memoir. He talks to the author of Truant: Notes From the Slippery Slope.