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Out of Doors: Mugdock Country Park, Plants with Purpose and Big Garden Birdwatch

Mugdock Country Park, Plants with Purpose and Big Garden Birdwatch

BBC Radio Scotland - Out of Doors, Mugdock Country Park, Plants with Purpose and Big Garden Birdwatch

Mark Stephen and Linda Sinclair with stories from the great outdoors.

Linda is in Pitlochry where a group of volunteers meet once a fortnight to help maintain the area’s much-loved and well-used path network. She hears why the group were founded and about the different kinds of work they carry out. 

Mark is in Dunbar Harbour, marvelling at the kittiwakes and exploring a site that was once home to a fish hatchery. 					

And not far along the coast in North Berwick, Rachel meets artist and campaigner Julie Barnes, who created what is believed to be the largest mural in the UK made entirely from marine plastic.

Is spring finally here? After a very damp and dismal start to the season, Pennie Latin looks hopefully towards to the first glimpses of new life in Spring and thinks about they make us feel.		
						
The results of the RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch 2024 are out! The house sparrow has topped the list once again. but what do the rest of the results tell us? We find out live.  	
			
Linda goes on a tour of Glasgow City Centre with Niall Murphy, director of the Glasgow City Heritage Trust. He shows her some of hidden architectural gems and tells her about how the city centre developed over the years. 

Plants with Purpose is a five-year initiative set up by Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh to research how we could use plants to combat extreme urban weather events. Mark finds out more as he visits the rain garden area of the RBGE in Edinburgh. 

The fashion industry is notoriously unsustainable, and designers are working on how to improve that. Maud meets one such person, Emily Raemakers who has been experimenting with natural materials including mushrooms, algae and apple leather. 

And Mugdock Country Park is a popular location just north of Glasgow with woods, trails and a 13th-century castle. It not only attracts families and dog walkers but TV productions and Hollywood movies. Linda meets Pam Grieve, the park’s development officer to hear about what’s involved in hosting a blockbuster film crew.

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