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Mark heads out to the Cabrach on the Northern edge of the Cairngorms, to meet with local ranger, Stephen Reeves, and development manager Sam Dowdall. Later on, he joins a group of local school children taking part in an art project in the area.

In this weeks midweek podcast, Helen Needham meets Linda Williamson and John Slavin to discuss the life and stories of the late Duncan Williamson- renowned Scottish traveller and master storyteller. We hear an extract from their chat.

The Alford Heritage Museum in Aberdeenshire is making memory boxes available to the local community, with items relating to rural life and agriculture through the ages. Rachel Stewart joins Sue Taylor and Jean Mortimer for a rummage.

Mark meets with Maree Morrison, Recreation Ranger at Feshie Bridge, to find out more about the Frank Bruce Sculpture Trail.

Scotland鈥檚 most durable snow patch, nicknamed the Sphinx, has melted away for the fourth time in six years- having melted only nine times in the past three centuries. We chat with Iain Cameron, author of 'The Vanishing Ice: Diaries of a Scottish Snow Hunter', about the significance of this melt.

A woodland football pitch has been revisited after ten years, by Stuart McFarlane. He talks us through the changes that a decade has brought upon this hidden sportsground.

Rachel Stewart joins Richard Averiss from the Scottish Wildlife Trust, to witness the Geese leaving the Montrose Basin at daybreak. Thousands of birds have already travelled from Greenland and Iceland to the reserve, where they stop off as part of their winter migration.

To find out more about the transient habits of Geese, we chat with David Pickett, site manager at Caerlaverock Wetland Centre, ahead of the Wild Goose Festival in Dumfries and Galloway.