Flow Country, Caithness (Credit: VisitScotland/ Paul Tomkins)
The Nature of Peatland Bogs
By Norrie Russell
Image provided by Smartify
This audio forms part of a series of audio interviews conducted in 2022 by Smartify as part of the Spirit of the Highlands and Islands project. Listen and discover the Spirit of the Highlands and Islands through the eyes of the people who live, work and visit here.
In this recording, explore the phenomenal nature of the peatland bogs of the Highlands and the wildlife which call them home through the eyes of Norrie Russell.
...to be there on a day or a morning when the waders are up singing,when greenshank and golden plover and dunlin are singing around you...there's very few other places in Britain or the world, even, that I was happy.