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Out of Doors

14/04/2018

Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio OrkneyLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio Scotland Highlands and Islands

Mark visits the newly opened community run hub Bridgend Farmhouse in Edinburgh. After years of hard work the team are finally up and running with facilities for all the community in the farmhouse, workshops and garden.

Mark is in the Borders near Lockerbie with some volunteers from Saving Scotland's Red Squirrels as they check their feeder boxes.

Scotland's ospreys arrived a couple of weeks ago from Africa and many are hard at work building nests and getting ready to start another brood. Euan finds out more about these impressive Birds and their re-introduction after they became extinct in Scotland.

Claypits Local Nature Reserve is a hidden gem in Glasgow that has a historical link to the canal. Mark went for a visit and to hear about how a new path will hopefully draw more people in to visit.

The Wild Ways Well project in Cumbernauld aims to get people suffering from poor mental health into the outdoors. Euan went along to find out more.

Mark visits the Tarves Heritage Centre which is housed in the old village school. He has a tour and finds out more about the history of this Aberdeenshire village.

Artful Migration is an arts and environment residency programme on climate change and its effect on migrating birds that visit Dumfries and Galloway. Mark meets the first artist in residence as she works on a very interesting part of the project. Show less

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