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Scotland Outdoors

Aspen, Osprey and Mulberry Harbours

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7709 Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2024

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Rachel meets Peter Livingstone who has spent a decade campaigning to save the Aspen tree. Thanks to his hard work, numbers of Aspen in Renfrewshire have grown from single digits to thousands. He shows Rachel his nursery near Bishopton.

Andrew O'Donnell is a natural history film maker and musician who records under the moniker of Beluga Lagoon. In this week’s Scotland Outdoors podcast, Maud Start meets up with Andrew on a river bank. We hear an excerpt where they watch dippers and talk about the nature themes in his music.

Last week on Out of Doors we heard about how busy the island of Skye is all year round with tourists. While Mark was visiting, he took time to seek out a quieter style of tour with Mark Purrett from Skye Geography Tours. He took Mark to a less popular location and told him about the geography of the island.

It’s osprey watching season and as always, there have been highs and lows at the various nesting sites around the country. Rachel visits the RSPB’s Loch Garten where they have had no shortage of drama this year. Ranger Jess Tomes tells her more.

You might remember a few months, ago Mark went for a walk with Dr Kat Jones, Director of Action to Protect Rural Scotland, who had undertaken a challenge to walk Glasgow’s Greenbelt. Well she’s just completed her walks, so Mark went back to catch up with her to find out how it had gone.

Later this year the BBC Food and Farming Awards will be held in Scotland. And here on Out of Doors alongside our TV colleagues at Landward, we are launching The BBC Scotland Local Food Hero award. Joining us to tell us more is presenter of Radio 4’s Food Programme, Sheila Dillon.

Rachel is back at the Scottish Wildlife Trust’s Rahoy Nature Reserve where ranger Steve Hardy lets her listen to some of the recordings he’s made of the amazing wildlife that makes its home in Rahoy.

We catch up with the incredible Ethan Walker, who just nine months after suffering horrific injuries when he was hit by a car, is cycling to Munich for Euro 2024. We chat to Ethan live to see how far he’s managed to travel in a week.

And as the country marks the 80th Anniversary of the D-Day landings, Mark is in Garlieston in Dumfries and Galloway where crucial parts of the invasion infrastructure were tested.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:06.6

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0:12.7

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0:15.7

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0:18.7

Listen to your favourite podcasts first on BBC Sounds.

0:22.8

This Scotland Outdoors podcast with Mark Stephen and Rachel Stewart from BBC Radio Scotland.

0:32.7

Hello and thanks very much for choosing to listen to this.

0:36.3

This week we're covering a diverse range of topics

0:39.7

from Aspen to Osprey to Mulberry Harbours.

0:46.1

Good morning, I'm Mark Stephen,

0:47.9

sitting the other side of the fire,

0:49.1

actually cowering over the fire here at Beach Grove and Aberdeen,

0:51.9

Rachel Stewart.

0:52.9

It is chilly, and actually all week

0:54.7

I've been thinking do I put on my summer jacket or do I need to find my winter coat? It's just

0:58.8

been that nasty nip in the air. It's not like you to take your winter coat off ever. Ever I know.

1:03.9

I don't know what I've been thinking. I can't help but think maybe this week we've missed the trick.

1:08.6

Surely. Just this week.

1:14.5

Surely we should have been doing something on Swifts because we must have our very own loyal breed of Swifties.

1:18.7

Well, there are, yeah.

1:20.0

Indeed, good point.

1:21.2

I see what you did there.

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