A Big Garden Birdwatch Special from Mark Stephen's Bird Feeders.

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Mark records and describes the birds visiting his feeders in Aberdeenshire.

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0:00.0	Did you know that you can listen to many of your favourite podcasts first on BBC Sounds?
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0:24.0	The Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland.
0:32.0	Hello and thanks very much for downloading this podcast. I'm Mark Stephen.
0:39.1	This week's wee be the unusual because we don't have one guest. We've got dozens, hundreds possibly.
0:46.2	And yet the only human voice you're going to hear in this is mine.
0:59.8	Ordinarily, when I'm recording wildlife, I'm standing there holding and pointing the microphone.
1:02.4	The birds or the animals know I'm there.
1:09.0	But having spoken on this podcast to proper wildlife sound recorders like Chris Watson or just Riley French,
1:12.4	I wondered what would happen if I wasn't there.
1:19.3	What if it was just the recording equipment? Now to explain, I've got this small digital recorder an Olympus LS 11. It's a glorified dictaphone really. And I placed it in the branches of that tree over
1:26.1	there next to where we have our bird feeders at home.
1:29.6	It records in stereo, so you might want to listen to this on headphones or earbuds.
1:34.9	I'll be absolutely honest, the results I got out of this really surprised me. I'd no sooner switched the machine on and walked away when a skein of pink-footed geese passed overhead. I'm gonnae. I'm gonnae
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