by Keith Broomfield | May 20, 2020 | Wildlife
By Keith Broomfield The mother mallard with her ducklings had seen me approach along the riverbank from some distance away, but I had already spotted her, so the advantage lay with me. I was too far away to hear, but presumably she uttered some kind of soft call to...
by Keith Broomfield | Apr 3, 2020 | Wildlife
A spring dawn-frosted morning on the River Devon just a couple of days before the coronavirus lockdown; still air, azure sky and sunbeams brimming over the rolling horizon, spilling forth a myriad of sparkling rays. Nature is so inspiring, life-giving and powerful in...
by Keith Broomfield | Feb 18, 2020 | Wildlife
It’s all about finding the right opportunity – and this pair of red-breasted mergansers fishing close to the shore at St Cyrus had certainly found that. Despite the air being still, rolling breakers were crashing into the shore with some ferocity. But the power of the...
by Keith Broomfield | Jan 16, 2020 | Wildlife
Sitting still with hardly a flicker of a muscle, until you blend seamlessly into the landscape and become part of nature is such a productive way for seeking out wildlife; and so it proved in this little strip of woodland by the edge of the Ochils. I had found a mossy...
by Keith Broomfield | Nov 29, 2019 | Wildlife
I was walking by a wooded edge near my home when the air was broken by a crackling of twigs and the gentle thump of pattering hooves. It was a roe deer and it had picked up my scent. Although wary, it couldn’t see me because a tangle of hawthorn bushes lay between us....
