Scotland Outdoors

Stargazing Birds, Doric Words for Nature and a Mountaineering Photographer

Mark visits Mar Lodge on Deeside to take a look at work that has been done on the river bank to restore the natural floodplain. Rachel is in Fife at Reediehill Deer Farm

Honouring Winter with Rosie Steer

Helen Needham speaks with Rosie Steer about her book 'Gloaming'

A Highland Halloween, a Seal Safari and a Clock Tower in Moray

In this week’s Scotland’s Outdoors podcast Mark meets loch bagger Claire Young. Claire came up with the idea of loch bagging after vertigo put a halt to her Munro bagging

Loch Bagging with Claire Young

Mark Stephen learns about the pursuit of Loch Bagging with its inventor, Clare Young

A Lawn full of Fungi, a Stag called Rufus and Extreme Timbersports

Mark is in Aberdeen where hair from a grey squirrel has been in found in feeder boxes. That might not sound very unusual, but the city was close to eradicating the non-na

Stobs Military Camp, Hawick

Mark Stephen visits Stobs Military Camp near Hawick to discover the importance of this site from a training camp in the early 1900s to a resettlement camp after the secon

The World's Quietest Festival, Ardestie Earth House and Arbroath Signal Tower Museum

The Arbroath Signal Tower Museum is set to benefit from more than £300,000 of funding to develop its outdoor space. Mark went for a visit to hear about their plans to tra

The Man with the Horse, Poet and Storyteller, Tony Bonning

Rachel Stewart meets poet and story teller, Tony Bonning. Tony, known as the Man with the Horse, undertakes treks across the country with his horse Chief to collect folkl

Pears, Corncrakes and Cow Calling

It’s the time of year when we celebrate leaves as Autumn unfolds. Mark meets up with leaf expert Professor Jonathan Silvertown who’s written a book about them called Natu

The Hidden Powers of Leaves

Mark Stephen meets Professor Jonathan Silvertown whose book Nature Magicians is all about leaves and why they matter

Edinburgh's Surf Resort, Wallace, Glasgow's Fire Dog and the Wild Plants of Deeside

Funding is being made available to improve core paths in Aberdeen over the next few years and Rachel joined Chris York from environmental consultancy Walking the Talk to

The Cities of the Future with an Eye to the Past

Helen Needham meets up with writer Gabriella Bennett to discuss her book 'How to Build a City'. They meet in Glenrothes in Fife where Gabriella spent part of her childhoo

Wasps, Coos and Doos

Up until now, access from the top station of the Cairngorm funicular railway onto the mountain was not allowed outside the winter snowsports season, unless visitors were

The History of Portsoy Marble

Rachel Stewart finds out about a major heritage project linked to the distinctive stone.

Sounds of the Canal, Rosie the Cow and a Garden on a Carpark

The Denburn car park in Aberdeen city centre is well known by locals, but not many people might be as familiar with what sits on top of it. Around the derelict health cen

The Healing Power of Horses with Jock Hutchison

Horseback UK is a charity run by Jock Hutchison and his wife Emma bringing together horses and humans to overcome some of the stresses of everyday life

Scottish Rain, Productive Worms and an Archive of Soil

Mark visits the James Hutton Institute in Aberdeen where researchers are carrying out a project to restore, preserve and digitise irreplaceable soil and peat maps, aerial

Capturing the Wild with Photographer Karen Miller

Mark Stephen talks to former colleague Karen Miller about swapping her desk for wildlife.

Little Egrets, Popular Peacocks and The Book of Birds

Mark visits NatureScot’s Forvie National Nature Reserve in Aberdeenshire where little egrets have bred in north-east Scotland for the first time. They are a welcome addit

The Book of Birds with Jackie Morris

Helen Needham discusses The Book of Birds with illustrator and artist Jackie Morris