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The Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland.

Hello and thanks very much for downloading this podcast.

I'm Mark Stephen.

If I look at my window at the moment, due south, on my left-hand side, my neighbour's fields, that's old hay, he's been trying to make that for about two weeks now,

it's got soaked a couple of times, so that's copper.

Our hay was taken off about a month ago, so the grass has come back up against it.

It's really quite viridian green and then off to my right

another neighbour's field it's just barley so it's gold sun in the foreground slate grey sky above that

so it's really quite dramatic the whole thing here in abidensia and the thing is there is only a few

millimeters of glass between me and the weather and the reality of the outdoors.

And I can see the wind in the trees, but I can't hear it.

Sound has been really occupying us greatly in this podcast over the fast few months.

And I'm joined now by Helen Needham.

I think that we've decided between us that lockdown has lent itself

to close listening, really because everything's just been quieter. Yeah, it's a fact. It's not

just sound too, but the musicality of the natural world. I was driving into work the other day

and I had the car window open and I could hear crows arguing amongst

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