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Scotland Outdoors

Polly Pullar

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7709 Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Mark meets wildlife rehabilitator and journalist Polly Pullar in her native Ardnamurchan.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Did you know that you can listen to many of your favourite podcasts first on BBC Sounds?

0:06.6

Like Desert Island Discs, where you can hear castaways like Cher, Gareth Southgate and Nick Cave,

0:12.7

and enjoy longer versions of the music they've picked.

0:15.7

Good things come to those who don't wait.

0:18.7

Listen to your favourite podcasts first on BBC sounds this is benheant

0:24.8

which is the highest hill in this area and the main landmark you see it when you're

0:29.3

sailing up the sound of mull it's the most beautiful hill love all the sort of contours and the

0:33.8

fact it's like a piece of tweed laid out all the different greens at this time of year

0:38.0

and not too brackened there's a few bracken slopes but it's fabulous lots of little burns

0:43.1

lots of steep cliffs eagles i've seen otters very high up on benhient too it's a magic hill it

0:49.1

actually in gaelic roughly translated means the enchanted mountain and as far as i'm'm concerned, it is. It's just a fabulous place.

0:56.2

This is part of your childhood.

0:57.4

This is. This is one of the first hills I climbed.

1:00.5

And it's where I first learned about deer.

1:03.3

I used to spend hours going up on my own, not to the top, but just onto the slopes.

1:08.3

And watching the rut and watching the gummings and goings

1:11.2

of the deer. Loved it. Who took your stalking for a start? Well, my father took me out one

1:16.3

Sunday during the rut, and we just went with binoculars, no guns or anything like that,

1:20.9

and he took me where I'm going to take you now, actually. And I think there was a lot of acting

1:25.3

going on. You know, we did a lot of stalking up the burn

1:27.7

and I followed him up with these big legs going behind

1:31.6

and it's just amazing.

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