Keith Broomfield
Director and Writer at Freelance
Nature Columnist at The Courier and Evening Telegraph (Dundee)
Nature Columnist at The Press and Journal
Nature columnist The Courier and P&J. Author: If Rivers Could Sing; A Scottish Wildlife Odyssey; Wild Quest Britain; A Snorkeller's Guide to the Mediterranean
Articles
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1 week ago |
alloaadvertiser.com | Keith Broomfield
5 1/1 Over the last fortnight or so, toads have been congregating throughout Clackmannanshire on favoured ancestral breeding ponds for their annual spawning season. It can be a spectacular sight and is often enough to put even the most depraved Roman orgy to shame, given the incredible intensity of the mating that for many of its participants will be their final act.
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3 weeks ago |
alloaadvertiser.com | Keith Broomfield
7 1/1 It is always a joy to spot otters on the River Devon, and recently it was a real treat to have a close encounter with two on the stretch of river between Dollar and Tillicoultry. I had spent the previous couple of hours wandering the haugh of the river, but it had been turning out to be one of those days when not much wildlife was about. I was hoping to spot at least one kingfisher, but alas there was nary a glimpse.
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3 weeks ago |
alloaadvertiser.com | Keith Broomfield
6 1/1 Yellow comes in all shades and tints, but there is surely no colour yellow that compares in brightness and vibrancy as that found on the wild primroses shortly coming into bloom by our waysides and woodland edges in the Wee County. The primrose delivers such dazzling freshness; little orbs of joyous sunshine signalling that spring is well and truly here and warm balmy days lie ahead.
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1 month ago |
alloaadvertiser.com | Keith Broomfield
6 1/1 My mind becomes giddy with excitement at this time of year – and it is a battle of the will whether to look in the air for newly arrived migrant birds like chiffchaffs or cast my eyes to the ground in my local wood in Clackmannanshire in search of spring flowers.
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1 month ago |
alloaadvertiser.com | Keith Broomfield
3 1/1 Early spring is always an exciting time in the Wee County because the countryside is on the cusp of change – and one of the biggest heralds of such transformation are spawning frogs. Each year at this time, I embark upon a pilgrimage down to the haugh of the River Devon in search of frogs as they congregate among its scattering of small pools and natural ponds.
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Always great to see the sandpipers back on the River Devon #Clackmannanshire https://t.co/4ICVsE5TY2
‘They were flowers of the hill breeze, a sweeping carpet of yellow-dazzled colt’s-foot that swept along this path edge in the Ochils in a shimmering celebration of the beauty of a Wee County spring’ – my ‘Wildside’ column in this week’s Alloa Advertiser https://t.co/kH689xymCY
One from a couple of weeks ago - sunset over the #Skye Cuillins as seen from #Arisaig https://t.co/KmDIwuKFUx