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 | Apr 3, 2020 | Wildlife
A spring dawn-frosted morning on the River Devon just a couple of days before the coronavirus lockdown; still air, azure sky and sunbeams brimming over the rolling horizon, spilling forth a myriad of sparkling rays. Nature is so inspiring, life-giving and powerful in...
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...
