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Scotland Outdoors

Mark goes on a wildlife safari in the Angus Glens, Euan discovers how to ID birds by their song and avoids an angry bird

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7709 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2018

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

A wildlife safari in the Angus Glens, an angry bird and how to ID birds by their song

Transcript

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0:34.2

Salons. Hello and a warm welcome to the Scotland Outdoors podcast.

0:38.4

Thank you very much for downloading us.

0:39.9

I'm Mark Stephen.

0:40.7

And I'm Ewan McElraith.

0:41.7

And this week I've been up in Glenn Tanner hearing about a pretty scary big turkey of the woods.

0:48.0

And I've been up wondering about the Angus Glens with one of the keepers up there who's doing wildlife safaris.

0:55.6

His name is Andy Malcolm.

0:57.8

He has been up there for about, I don't know, the guts of 30 years, thereabouts.

1:02.3

Does he have music playing on to?

1:03.6

Yep.

1:04.3

No, he doesn't have any of that.

1:06.8

Would add a whole dimension to it?

1:08.0

Yeah, he would, I would grant you that.

1:09.8

But we actually started off. There is a community-run museum and tea shop in the Glen, which is called The Retreat.

1:17.1

We started off in there actually says, look, we'll take some grub with us and they're going to sort us out a picnic.

1:21.7

Norma Lyle from the retreat did a cracking job.

1:26.1

We try to use as many local suppliers as possible to give a quality feel to the picnic

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