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🗓️ 6 April 2024
⏱️ 85 minutes
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In this week’s Scotland Outdoors podcast, Mark chats with Landward’s Cammy Wilson about his sheep-farming career. We hear an excerpt where Cammy is telling Mark the story of Fiona, the 'world’s loneliest sheep'.
Killiechassie Burial Ground near Aberfeldy holds just six graves, five of which are covered over with recumbent flat slabs. For years, it was allowed to become neglected but in the 1990s, the Breadalbane Heritage Society started to take an interest and discovered that it not only dates back hundreds of years but also has connections to King Robert the Bruce and the Wolf of Badenoch. Ian Stewart shows Rachel around.
On last week’s programme, a listener got in touch to ask how they could stop badgers from leaving droppings in their garden. Mark meets with Eddie Palmer, the chairman of Scottish Badgers, to learn about the ways that we can stop badgers from causing problems in our gardens.
A Scotland-wide test of the nation’s rivers for microplastics, pharmaceuticals and various other chemicals is underway. The study has started in the north east with sampling being carried out on the rivers Dee and Ugie, which takes in both rural and urban areas. Rachel met with Dr Jessica Gomez-Banderas on the riverbank near Peterhead to find out about how they take the samples and what they’re actually looking for.
In March, Queen Margaret University opened a new state of the art outdoor learning hub. The facility aims to improve understanding of outdoor learning amongst the teaching profession, whilst also enabling the community to connect to the natural world in new ways. Mark meets with Patrick Boxall, lecturer in Education, to find out more.
Over the last wee while, thousands of new trees have been planted on the nature reserve at Loch Ardinning near Glasgow as part of a project by the Scottish Wildlife Trust to create a new oak woodland at the site. To stop the grassland chocking out the saplings, staff have been laying mulch mats and recently they roped in some helpers who were on a corporate volunteering day. Rachel chats to Chris Thomson from the Scottish Wildlife Trust and his corporate volunteers from SPL Powerlines Lee, Cassandra and Lewis.
The Natural Trust for Scotland have built a new oak tree nursery as part of the long-term sustainability of the Old Wood of Drum. The wood dates back to Robert the Bruce, and the team there have been really busy planting and growing from acorns harvested from the wood. Mark meets NTS Woodland Ranger Bronwen Thomas to find out more.
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0:28.4 | Scotland. |
0:33.4 | Hello and thank you very much for choosing to listen to this. |
0:35.8 | As you probably know, we built the Scotland Outdoors podcast from the live program we do for BBC Radio Scotland, which is called Out of Doors. |
0:42.8 | And this week it's all about the rain, rain, rain. |
0:46.4 | Did we mention the rain? |
0:51.2 | You know us, you know us well. |
0:53.6 | We never, ever complain. |
0:56.6 | Resolutely cheerful, that's what we are. |
0:59.9 | Oh, the rain. |
1:01.7 | Oh, oh, the rain. |
1:03.7 | Tissogy, distinctly soggy. |
1:05.6 | I'm Mark Stephen, standing, well, nowhere near me, to be honest, |
1:09.0 | here at Beach Grove Car Park in Aberdeen, Rachel Stewart, cowering under the portico. |
1:13.1 | Yeah, trying to find some kind of shelter. You know, it's been like four seasons in a day recently. Yesterday I was driving from Aberdeen north towards Murray, and suddenly, at about 9 o'clock in the morning, it was a winter wonderland. |
1:27.1 | Later on the afternoon, there was a wee hint of sunshine in the sky in Murray, |
1:31.2 | and then at night again heavy rain, and I see today it's gusty wind. |
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