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Scotland Outdoors

Concorde, Coastal Rowing and the Bordered Brown Lacewing

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7709 Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2025

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Mark visits a Moray estate to hear about the incredible rescue of 3 osprey chicks after wildfires raged through vast areas of the Highlands and neighbouring Moray

Campaigner David Brown specialises in removing fishing debris from our beaches, Rachel pops along to Cairnbulg Harbour by Fraserburgh to find out about his ghost net campaign

Mark visits the National Museum of Flight in East Lothian as they celebrate their 50th anniversary. He speaks to curator Ian Brown about the Avro Vulcan bomber and gets himself a 1st class seat onboard Concorde.

In Dundee, a new digital Whalers’ Memory Bank has been launched sharing stories from folk who were involved in the industry during the 50’s and 60’s. One of the contributors, former whaler John Alexander shares some of his experiences with Rachel alongside Helen Balfour, assistant curator from the South Georgia Museum.

The rare bordered brown lacewing, is celebrating 200 years of first being discovered in Scotland. Conservation Officer from Species on The Edge, Fiona Basford joins Mark and Rachel to tell them about a special challenge looking for volunteers to report shared sightings of the invertebrate over 200 hours.

Helen Needham is in a field near Dumbarton, with Maisie the horse and her owner Josie Vallely (also known as Quinie) an artist based in Glasgow. Josie spends her free time journeying with Maisie, enjoying the countryside of Scotland at Maisie’s pace.

Stranraer is hosting this year’s Skiffie Worlds – an international rowing competition. Rachel is in Anstruther to meet some of those involved in what will be the largest gathering ever of St Ayles Skiffs to date!

Transcript

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0:21.6

Drop shots!

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Winner!

0:23.6

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0:27.6

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0:29.6

This Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland.

0:35.6

Hello and thank you very much from BBC Radio Scotland.

0:43.5

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

0:47.1

As you know, we do a couple of Scotland Outdoors podcasts every week,

0:51.1

one of which is built from the live programme we do for BBC Radio Scotland,

0:52.6

which is called Out of Doors. And this week, it's flight-tastic.

0:58.7

Right, that's it. I've reached a tipping point.

1:02.4

This is a momentous decision, a crossing the Rubicon moment,

1:05.3

because the sun is shining, it's flat calm,

1:08.1

we've got the fire on, we frankly don't need it,

1:10.7

and I've just taken my jacket off.

1:12.5

I'm standing in the sunshine in a T-shirt.

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