by Keith Broomfield | Mar 9, 2022 | Wildlife
Whilst it has been an unusually mild winter, it was also an extremely windy one, and the full impact of the havoc wreaked by a succession of storms was brought home to me the other week when driving through the Howe o’ the Mearns. It was in the aftermath of Storm...
by Keith Broomfield | Feb 17, 2022 | Wildlife
I adore rivers – serene slivers of tranquillity that wind their way across the landscape, and which are always brimming with natural wonders. And when it comes to magnificent rivers, the Tay is right there at the top, with a majesty and power that excites me on each...
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 | 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...
