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Scotland Outdoors

Helen Needham goes seaweeding with Fi Bird on the island of South Uist

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7709 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Wading out to the rocks to find edible seaweed.

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0:00.0

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0:09.3

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0:27.4

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0:32.8

Listen first on BBC Salons. Hello and thanks for downloading the Scotland Outdoors podcast.

0:39.7

I'm Helen Needham.

0:41.1

It was about a year ago now that I found myself knee-deep in the waters of South Eust

0:47.4

with forager fee bird.

0:50.6

We're on South Glendar Beach on the Isle of South East and we're looking across the hills and the houses over there.

0:56.6

That's Eriske, which you can see the causeway.

1:00.2

Yeah.

1:00.8

And this is a tidal beach, so we're fortunate that we can walk here because if you come down at certain times of the day, there's sea.

1:10.0

Well, there was earlier actually when we arrived and

1:12.2

we've been picnicking ever since and i'm just enjoying looking at the remnants of what the sea's left behind

1:18.9

i can see some sputes or razor clams yeah and what kind of shells are those those are cockles

1:26.5

and so if we'd come down with a garden fork and done some raking,

1:31.2

it's a great activity to do with kids.

1:33.3

We could have had cockles for tea.

1:36.1

The sputes were a bit more difficult.

1:38.4

And the cockles, we basically just dig them up then?

1:41.8

What's the technique?

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