Shetland Dandelions, a Moray Firth Whale and a Paisley Drain

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

A new initiative in Buchan called Sma Wids to encourage farmers and landowners to plant trees, the largest surviving ice house in the UK at Spey Bay, lapwing chick ringing in Upper Deeside, the rare dandelions of Shetland, the seabird village of Fowlsheugh near Stonehaven and the latest news from the osprey nest at Loch Garten plus the tale of a medieval drain at Paisley Abbey along with the dramatic demise of an orca whale at Spey Bay on the Moray Firth in the 1960s

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0:00.0	Why do some big successful brands go bust?
0:05.0	Toast is back for a new series, taking a look at the decisions that often left investors burnt.
0:11.0	I'm Sean Farrington, a BBC business journalist. I'll be hearing about the hype.
0:15.0	They're going to do the deal that makes them the most money at that point of time.
0:19.0	And I'm picking what went wrong,
0:21.6	talking to owners and employees to ask,
0:24.2	what can we learn?
0:25.4	It was being undercut by similar rivals.
0:28.5	It just couldn't survive.
0:30.3	Toast. Listen first on BBC Sounds.
0:34.3	This Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland.
0:44.0	Hello and thanks very much for choosing to listen to this.
0:46.5	We do a couple of Scotland Outdoors podcasts every week,
0:50.1	one of which is based on the live programme we do for BBC Radio Scotland,
0:53.9	which is called Out of Doors.
0:55.5	And this week we're talking birds and whales and a brilliant story dating back to 1967.
1:05.6	You know, all year I've been looking up at that church tower on a Saturday morning looking for the peregrine
1:10.9	falcons that used to be there and they're not there anymore. I'm wondering where they've gone.
1:15.7	Good morning. I'm Mark Stephen across the other side of the fire pit this morning. Rachel Stewart.
1:19.1	Good morning. It's not a bad morning either.
1:21.3	It's a thin mist, I would say, as I drove in this morning, hanging over the river and blanketing the fields.
1:27.7	And the sun was looking at me going, I'm just about to come out.
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