Before you listen to this BBC podcast, I want to tell you why I love podcasting. Hi, my name's Tommy Dixon,

and I make podcasts for the BBC. I'm a big fan of stories, always loved a good book. But when I started

commuting for my first job, I discovered podcasts. I was blown away by how a creative idea and the right

mixture of sounds could take you into a whole new world full of incredible stories. You know, the type that make you go, wow. And that kind of inspired me to

give it a go myself, which to cut a long story short led to a BBC training scheme and a whole

new career giving other people that exact same feeling. So if you want to hear amazing stories

that make you go wow like I did, they're just a tap or click away on BBC

sounds. This is a BBC Radio 4 download. You're listening to me, Claire Boulding, with another

edition of Ramblings. You join us today on Ramblings on a gorgeous spring morning. We're in

Bedfordshire and I'm joining a group called the old birds,

which means we're going to see plenty of birds because Val, you'll call the old birds for why?

Well, we're not young, we're all women and we go out birding. So it's the logical name.

And I'm looking at your earrings, you've got little owls dangling from

your ears what sort of owls are those tawny owls well they wouldn't obviously but you know

they're supposed to be tawny owls and we might see an owl today might be very doubtful there are barn owls

up here but it's not really the right time of the day for those. Well, yes, because it's...

Although...

We do know where one roosts.

So that's our first stop.

Fabulous.

And tell me exactly where we are, because I've just said randomly Bedfordshire.

But we're sort of near Hitchin, aren't we?

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