Wanderings, Wild Gardens and Lapwings

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2019

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Mark goes for a wander, Helen plants a wild garden and Euan looks for lapwings.

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0:23.0	Hello and thank you very much for downloading the Scotland Outdust Podcast at Mark
0:26.4	Stephen. He's you and Macalryth.
0:27.7	Yeah, we've been banging on for weeks now about how great this time of year is and how wonderful
0:31.9	the wildlife is in Scotland. And I've been up to Lochastrtheg in the north-east of
0:36.3	Scotland to see the amazing sight of a thousand lap wings.
0:40.7	Wonderful.
0:41.2	That's a fabulous sight.
0:42.7	I can't remember the last time I saw more than about 20.
0:46.2	Yeah, they're lovely birds, peeweets, chugots.
0:49.6	A lot of people thought they were on the brink of extinction,
0:51.9	but they're making a great comeback, so that's a wee bit later in the program. Okay, I'm looking forward to that.
0:56.0	Steve Mitchell has been farming Buffalo in Fife since 2005.
1:00.0	You might recognise him for the BBC television series This Farming Life.
1:04.0	Now, he's had a dream for some time to expand from buffalo beef, which is what he does, into
1:10.0	Mozzarella production, which would make him Scotland's only
1:12.5	Buffalo Mozilla producer.
1:15.0	Early this week, he reached a fundraising target, which
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