by Keith Broomfield | Aug 23, 2024 | Wildlife
An evening stroll along my local river – nightfall was approaching and I could sense a stirring in the air, as if the creatures of the gloaming were about to emerge. I scanned the opposite bank in hope of spotting an otter or a kingfisher, but it was a dark,...
by Keith Broomfield | Jul 10, 2024 | Wildlife
By Keith Broomfield As far as accessibility was concerned, this was the fox den from hell, which to reach involved wading knee-deep across a tumbling river followed by a scramble up a steep, nettle-infested bank. I had first noticed the site on the far bank of the...
by Keith Broomfield | May 21, 2024 | Wildlife
By Keith Broomfield They were flowers of the sea breeze, a sweeping carpet of yellow-dazzled colt’s-foot that swept along the wild Knoydart foreshore in a shimmering celebration of the beauty of a west highland spring. Often described as Scotland’s last wilderness,...
by Keith Broomfield | Feb 27, 2024 | Wildlife
Adaptive radiation is a fascinating aspect of evolutionary biology where a common ancestral species develops into a wide variety of different others, each one adapted to the niche parameters of their specific environment. The famous Darwin’s finches in the Galapagos...
by Keith Broomfield | Dec 8, 2023 | Wildlife
A piercing whistle whirls across the damp air from the far bank of the River Devon. I know it is an otter but as I peer through a tangle of alder and willow branches, I see no movement. Another whistle, even louder this time, and then I spot the otter running along a...
