27/02/2024
ILLUSTRATED TALK
‘Spring into Perthshire & Beyond’
Wednesday 20 March 2024
The Auld Brig Café Princes Street
Well-known nature writer, Keith Broomfield, author of If Rivers Could Sing: shortlisted in the 2021 Scottish National Book Awards (Saltire Awards), A Scottish Wildlife Odyssey & Wild Quest Britain, presents an illustrated talk on Perthshire wildlife in spring & beyond. Keith’s writing is a journey in which he, building on decades of experience and a wide knowledge, offers his own personal perspective of the natural world.
Entrance is FREE but tickets must be booked in advance – https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/spring-into-perthshire-tickets-843843036237 or Search on Eventbrite for Spring into Perthshire.
The talk will take place at The Auld Brig café on Princes Street, Perth – coffees, teas, soft drinks & cakes available to buy. The talk starts at 7pm – the café will be open from 6pm.
In If Rivers Could Sing, Keith chronicled a wildlife year on a Scottish river; in the acclaimed A Scottish Wildlife Odyssey (‘10/10 A joyous read, celebrating nature’, The Courier), he undertook a 5-month voyage of discovery encompassing a zig-zag journey from the southernmost parts of Scotland right up to the Northern Isles; in Wild Quest Britain, he undertook a wildlife journey encompassing England, Scotland & Wales, which best-selling nature writer, Dominic Couzens, described as ‘a delightful, gentle but deeply rich meander through the backwaters of wildlife Britain’. With an interest in wildlife spanning from his earliest years, Keith Broomfield is a Scottish nature writer who has had a passion for wildlife since childhood. A graduate in zoology from the University of Aberdeen, Keith’s writing covers every element of the natural world, including flora and fungi, invertebrates, mammals, birds and marine life. He writes a weekly ‘Nature Watch’ column for The Courier and The Press & Journal newspapers, as well as his ‘On the Wildside’ column for the Alloa Advertiser, & pieces for The Scotsman. He is a trustee/director of the Forth Rivers Trust, a board member of The Forth Naturalist & Historian and a committee member of the Devon Angling Association.
