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The Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland.

Hello and thank you very much for choosing to listen to this.

I'm Mark Stephen.

As you know, every Saturday we build the Scotland Outdoors podcast, this version of it, from the live programme we do for BBC Radio of Scotland, which is called Out of Doors. This week, there was actually quite a lot about birds.

Yesterday, yesterday I was keeping about in the sunshine.

Too warm.

Think to myself, oh, this is lovely.

This morning, I'm sitting here like a little old man

under the portico, scrunched up in front of the fire

as the rain falls, persisting down.

I'm Mark Stephen.

I'm here at Beach Grove,

and on a murky morning of his residence in Bamshadow this morning, Mr. Ewan McElrith, are you damp?

Good morning! No, it's beginning to lighten up. There's a crack in the sky. I've got a sky full of swallows which are really high up, which is usually a sign of good weather coming because the insects are up there. So, you know, it might all change.

If you can beat that, 08, 085, 92, 95, O. Quentin's taking your calls today. You can email

out of doors at bbc.co.com. Tell us what you're doing. Tell us how sunny it is and how the sun

is splitting the pavement. Now, we need the rain. I mean, there's not question of the fact we needed the rain.

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