by Keith Broomfield | Sep 2, 2020 | Wildlife
I trod carefully across the boulder field on this high plateau in the southern Cairngorms, scanning the ground for life. To the north, the high Cairngorm massif was etched against the horizon and I reeled off the names of their summits in my head; such familiar tops...
by Keith Broomfield | Aug 4, 2020 | Wildlife
Relaxing in the garden and enjoying the sun is a great way of getting close to nature, as I so discovered when lying on our lawn on a sun mat. Ahead of me the grass stretched like an expansive green sea but it was the abundance of tiny invertebrates that really caught...
by Keith Broomfield | Jul 2, 2020 | Wildlife
It was a puddle, no more than that; a water-filled wheel rut on an upland forestry track in Perthshire, yet this little pool surged with life. It was the palmate newts that first drew my eye, five of them lying on the muddy bottom. One of the creatures was an...
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...
