by Keith Broomfield | Apr 2, 2018 | Wildlife
This random yellow scattering of lesser celandines across the floor of my local wood have an irresistible appeal that draws me every April, especially since in among these sun-spangled flowers are drifts of pale-petalled wood anemones. It is a soothing tonic of yellow...
by Keith Broomfield | Mar 23, 2018 | Wildlife
Lamb’s-tails – what a wonderfully appropriate name for the hazel catkins that are now adorning our hedgerows and woodland edges. More a bush than a tree, the hazel is a fundamental keystone of our countryside yet so often over-looked because for much of the year it is...
by Keith Broomfield | Feb 7, 2018 | Wildlife
Greenfinches are scarce visitors to our garden nowadays, which is a real loss because they always bring so much colour with their green plumage and bright yellow flashes on wing edges and tail. When I was growing up in Edinburgh in the 1970s, greenfinches were amongst...
by Keith Broomfield | Dec 19, 2017 | Wildlife
I have been watching a pair of dunnocks in the garden and it is easy to see why this is a bird that many people overlook. It does, after all, have rather unremarkable brown-streaked plumage and a tendency to feed out of sight beneath shrubs and bushes. But appearances...
by Keith Broomfield | Nov 21, 2017 | Wildlife
Tidying up the garden in preparation for winter, I came across three hibernating garden snails hidden beneath an ornamental rock. Huddled together, I was immediately struck by the attractive and intricate patterns inscribed upon their spiral shells. One of the snails...
by Keith Broomfield | Oct 23, 2017 | Wildlife
I’ve been lucky enough to twice visit the Spanish island of Mallorca this year to engage in my passion for snorkelling. The Mediterranean is such a diverse place for marine life and on almost every dive I come back having seen something new. One feature this year has...
