by Keith Broomfield | Jan 31, 2022 | Wildlife
By Keith Broomfield There was a perceptible crackling noise as the pressure of my footfall crunched into storm-scattered seashells on the strandline at Largo Bay in the East Neuk. This was a graveyard of marine life – cockles, surf clams and razor shells, scoured from...
by Keith Broomfield | Nov 18, 2021 | Wildlife
My book on a wildlife year on the River Devon has been shortlisted for a prestigious award in the Scotland’s National Book Awards 2021, the premier literary prize for writing in Scotland. ‘If Rivers Could be Sing’ has been selected as a finalist in the ‘First Book’...
by Keith Broomfield | Oct 14, 2021 | Wildlife
Something didn’t seem right, and I couldn’t quite put my finger on it. I was on an early morning visit to Peterhead harbour and the inner basin was full of guillemots, their black and white forms bobbing out on the water. I had never seen so many guillemots in the...
by Keith Broomfield | Sep 7, 2021 | Wildlife
By Keith Broomfield I adore travelling on ferries between the Scottish mainland and the Hebrides, and on embarking upon a CalMac ferry for a recent voyage from Uig in Skye to Tarbert in Harris, I immediately hurried to an outside viewing deck – for I knew I was in...
by Keith Broomfield | Jul 30, 2021 | Wildlife
There is something strangely hypnotic about gliding over a kelp forest, the large brown-green fronds swaying in gentle unison with the tidal current in such a beguiling manner that one is drawn deep within its alluring embrace. I had only been snorkelling for a short...
