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Scotland Outdoors

The Battle of Little Ferry, Curlews and Goldfinches on Fair Isle

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7709 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2022

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Mark Stephen and Euan McIlwraith with stories from the great Scottish outdoors.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:06.6

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0:12.7

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0:18.7

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0:22.9

The Scotland Outdoors podcast with Mark Stephen and Ewan McElwraith from BBC Radio

0:28.8

Scotland.

0:33.8

Hello and thank you very much for choosing to listen to this.

0:36.3

I'm Mark Stephen.

0:37.3

We build the Scotland Outdoors podcast from a live programme we do for BBC Radio Scotland called Out of Doors.

0:42.5

And this week there was the old stock standard, the mystery bird.

0:46.5

Obviously, you can't do it without the mystery bird.

0:48.9

But I also went to look at a commemoration of a battle that frankly I'd never even heard of.

0:58.9

You're listening to Out of Doors on BBC Radio Scotland.

1:06.0

Morning, and you know, it's been a funny old week.

1:09.9

A couple of days ago I was sitting on Doors Beach just at the top end of Loch Ness,

1:11.3

with a guy called Steve Filtham,

1:14.8

who's lived there in a caravan for over 30 years.

1:17.5

He's a professional Loch Ness monster hunter.

1:19.3

And Steve's sitting there.

1:23.6

He's one of the most calm, contented, nice guys I've met in a long, long time.

1:27.4

And he was talking about this Osprey that was fishing off a bay which was maybe half a mile to the south

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