by Keith Broomfield | Oct 17, 2018 | Wildlife
The floor of the small strip of woodland behind our house is thick with fallen leaves, a multi-coloured carpet that rustles and gives gently under the heavy pad of my footsteps. I scoop my hands into an accumulation of leaves by the side of the path and already I can...
by Keith Broomfield | Aug 27, 2018 | Wildlife
From this Saturday (1 September) and throughout the month of September, visitors to the headquarters of the Scottish Ornithologists’ Club (SOC) in Aberlady can take advantage of 50% off all second hand books. The collection ranges from bird identification guides for...
by Keith Broomfield | Aug 22, 2018 | Wildlife
It is late afternoon and I’m sitting on a garden chair soaking up the August sun; its bright warmth a soothing tonic that relaxes the very soul. I sit so still that a male blackbird alights on the lawn only a few feet away and looks at me quizzically with a cocked...
by Keith Broomfield | Jul 19, 2018 | Wildlife
It was the white that stopped me in my tracks, not a shiny brilliant white but more a shimmering paleness that shone out from the grass and heather of this Perthshire moor. At first I thought it may have been a flower but when I crouched down closer I realised it was...
by Keith Broomfield | Jun 27, 2018 | Wildlife
Okay, so I know this is a totally weird thing to say, but if there is one thing guaranteed to excite me when out for a country walk, it is finding a sheet of corrugated iron lying on the ground. It is like coming upon a treasure trove, for the chances are there will...
by Keith Broomfield | May 30, 2018 | Wildlife
I’ve been trying to photograph blaeberry bumblebees but have not been having much luck as they are rather shy creatures that tend to buzz away just as I’m about to press the shutter button of my camera. Indeed, it is somewhat fortuitous that no-one has stumbled upon...
