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🗓️ 30 April 2025
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Rachel Stewart speaks to Dr Kenny Taylor at the Montrose Basin about 60 years of the SWT
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0:41.5 | This Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland. |
0:51.1 | Hello and thanks very much for choosing to listen to this. I'm Rachel Stewart. |
0:56.1 | Now this week we're looking at the Scottish Wildlife Trust. You may know that the charity has recently celebrated a big birthday. It's 60 years since it was created. And recently |
1:03.9 | I was lucky enough to spend a bit of time with Chair Dr Kenny Taylor at one of the Trust's |
1:10.2 | most popular reserves, the Montrose Basin. |
1:13.4 | I wanted to find out a bit more about its history, so prepare to hear some lovely BBC archive. |
1:20.6 | And I also wanted to ask Kenny about what might happen in the future. First though, we just had to soak up the sights and sounds of the beautiful estuary. |
1:37.7 | I always find it inspirational. |
1:40.2 | I mean, I grew up partly in Kirkintilloch, where Lensie Lough is not far from Kerkuntilich. |
1:46.7 | And one of my early memories of going out and experiencing wild nature was to go and see it was grey lag geese coming in to roost at Lensie Lough. |
1:57.3 | That small scale compared to the tens of thousands of geese that come in here so when I look at a view |
2:04.4 | like this on a wild day where the winds coming in from the north then I kind of think of all sorts of |
2:12.5 | things that could be here and that basically I would find very exciting should they happen. But then that's partly |
2:21.2 | with an interest in nature, that's part of the deal really that you're going out not expecting |
2:27.6 | everything to be on a plate, you're expecting to be surprised. So I look at this view and I'm prepared to be surprised by it. |
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