by Keith Broomfield | May 9, 2019 | Wildlife
My fox-cam came up trumps at the start of May with video footage of the vixen coaxing two of her cubs out the den for one of their first forays into the outside world. There are four cubs in this den and over the next few weeks they will grow rapidly and soon outgrow...
by Keith Broomfield | Apr 15, 2019 | Wildlife
Is there such a thing as a cute insect? Well, yes, there most definitely is because I saw one last week – a bee-fly; a little rotund ‘furry’ beast with an impossibly long proboscis. My garden is a fine place for spotting wildlife – not because it is especially rich in...
by Keith Broomfield | Feb 8, 2019 | Wildlife
“The grass is spangled with thy silver drops,” wrote the 18th century poet Charlotte Turner Smith in a tribute to the snowdrop while another contemporary described this wonderful winter flower as “a beauteous gem” that springs forth “amid the bare and...
by Keith Broomfield | Jan 7, 2019 | Wildlife
It is like something out of a horror movie, a long drawn out scream that breaks the still January air. It is so sudden and so ghoulish that it’s enough to send shivers down the spine; a shriek that spins the mind into hallucinatory overdrive. What kind of hideous...
by Keith Broomfield | Dec 12, 2018 | Wildlife
The mass of tangled kelp along the strandline of this East Neuk beach was at least a foot deep in places, a mix of yellow-brown flattened fronds and thick tubular stalks. At the base of each stem were intricate stubby tendrils that would have attached the seaweed to...
by Keith Broomfield | Nov 1, 2018 | Wildlife
On one of my regular walking routes there is a patch of forest where the pine trees are heavily adorned with silvery grey lichens that hang from the branches like feathery tufts. It is a most compelling place, especially on winter mornings when the atmosphere is damp...
