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We have a clip from our most recent Scotland Outdoors podcast featuring wildlife cameraman and photographer Raymond Besant. Raymond chats to Mark and Euan about his lifelong passion for birds and wildlife and his home of Orkney.

Back in 2016 Mark and Euan spent some time in the USA at a few national parks including Yosemite. The role of the park ranger is rather different in America from what we are used to here in Scotland. As Mark spends some time with a Cairngorm National Park Ranger this week, we take the opportunity to look back on the work of their American counterparts.

Mark heads to the RSPB鈥檚 Troup Head nature reserve near Banff to spend some time with gannets.

The Cairngorm National Park has recently recruited seven seasonal rangers to help support existing ranger services manage visitors as we ease out of lockdown. Earlier this week Mark spent some time with one of the new recruits to find out about the role of a park ranger.

The phrase 鈥淥ops a daisy鈥� piqued Euan鈥檚 interest when he heard it recently. So he鈥檚 spent some time researching the saying as well as the flower.

There is lots of evidence of the positive impact the natural environment has on our wellbeing. But does it matter what type of nature-based activity you do? We鈥檙e joined live down the line by Dr Michael Pocock from the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology who can tell us more.

Our lockdown walk this week comes from Laura Guthrie as she takes us on a lunchtime walk near Brechin in Angus.

Euan鈥檚 mystery bird this week has a charming song but can you identify it?

And as Mark spent time with gannets this week he was reminded of his trip to Lewis where he chatted to guga hunter Angus Murdo Gunn.

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