A British red kite emerges from an aviary in the remote hills of western Spain and takes flight. At six months old, this is its first taste of freedom.
Without a sound, it soars high in the sky above scrubland and within seconds disappears from view into a wooded valley in the distance.
It is the latest release in a conservation story that has come full circle.
Nearly four decades ago, the birds were extinct in England and Scotland with just a few pairs left in Wales.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, red kite chicks from Spain and Sweden were released in the Chilterns on the Oxfordshire-Buckinghamshire border.
