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Our special midweek podcast this week features wildlife filmmaker John Aitchison. John has travelled the world filming for landmark series like Frozen Planet and Planet Earth II and we hear an excerpt of him chatting to Mark and Euan.

After a week off mystery bird is back! What has Euan being recording this week?

And if lockdown has inspired you to put pen to paper the Mountaineering Scotland writing competition could be for you. We find out all about it.

And a murmuration is a striking phenomenon- thousands of birds all swooping and diving in unison. Mark has done some research and tells us more.

With lockdown easing slightly last week, Mark went a little further afield for his exercise than he鈥檇 been for weeks. He heads off on his bike aiming for the coastline and possibly even a swim in the sea.

We鈥檝e had some incredible sunsets over the past few weeks but what causes the impressive red and orange colouring in the sky? We鈥檙e joined by Alex Hill, meteorologist and former TV weather presenter to explain more.

Euan has newts in his garden pond at the moment and he also has a fancy new underwater microphone, perfect for recording them!

We look back at Mark and Euan鈥檚 trip to Canna a few years back where some ghostly goings on gave Euan a fright.

This is a busy time of year for beekeepers. We catch up with Ewan from Udny Provender to find out what bees are up to just now and what looking after them involves.

And Kim McAllister has been out and about recording a walk for us in the Pentland Hills with her family.