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The Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland.

Hello and thank you very much for downloading this.

I'm Mark Stephen.

This week I'm in the company of Andy Howard, nature photographer at his home in the outskirts of Inverness. Andy's

invited me here because he gets some rather special visitors to his garden at night, a family of

badgers. First off though, he wants to show me where their set is. I'm just going to walk

into a field which has got a mixed nitrogen giving crop just now which I imagine I'll put sheep in

soon and graze that down. We've got cows grazing to the right hand side. We've got the black

aisle just opposite us here,

Shannonry Point, which people know from the dolphins.

So we've got quite a nice elevated position here,

and we're only 10 minutes for Inverness.

It is kind of extraordinary, because I mean,

you're about a mile and a half up through woods,

and then you carry on climbing after you turn off

to actually find your house, I would guess,

probably about another half mile.

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