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328. Hunting for mushrooms - and legendary animals - with Kevin Parr
Season 19 Episode 29
Plodcast regular Kevin Parr joins host Fergus Collins for a charming mushroom hunting walk in a wooded Welsh valley. Along the way, as the foraging basket with treats, they discuss Kev's extraordinar…
Published on 1 day, 19 hours ago
Sound Escape 250. Swollen by days of rain, the stream has a new song
Season 19
After 36 hours of rain, the town floods and then the waters recede, surging down brooks such as this. You pause on a bridge above, hearing a stranger, bolder song in a stream you thought you knew so …
Published on 5 days, 19 hours ago
327. Venture out onto the wild Essex marshes with author Michael J Warren
Season 19 Episode 28
This week, we're heading to the bleakly beautiful Essex marshes to meet historian and birder Michael J Warren – and thousands of waders and wildfowl in this stunning area of big skies, haunting calls…
Published on 1 week, 1 day ago
Sound Escape 249. The haunting calls of waders and wild geese on forgotten Essex coast
Season 19
Deep in the Essex Marshes, you find solitude on a path that skirts marsh and lagoon. But you're not entirely alone – from the creeks and open water the fluting calls of waders and ducks and the deepe…
Published on 1 week, 5 days ago
326. Join the Plodcast team for a round up of listener emails and nature chat
Season 19 Episode 27
Join the Plodcast team of Fergus, Hannah, Jack and Lewis in a wild corner of the centre of Bristol for a long-awaited Plodchat – a round-up of our nature adventures plus listener emails, recordings a…
Published on 2 weeks, 1 day ago
Sound Escape 248. Soft sounds of autumn on the edge of the saltmarsh
Season 19
It's a still autumn morning and you've headed to the sea wall along the edge of the saltmarsh. A gentle rain falls as robins sing in the scrub on the landward side of the wall while occasional redsha…
Published on 2 weeks, 5 days ago
325. Roam a Hampshire woodland in search of rare hazel dormice
Season 19 Episode 26
This week we're in Hampshire, looking for dormice. These tiny, charming little mammals are hard to find at the best of times but numbers have been declining for decades mainly due to changes to how w…
Published on 3 weeks, 1 day ago
Sound Escape 247. A walk through autumn leaves on an ancient earthwork
Season 19
A path winds on before you, running along the top of an ancient earthwork constructed over a 1000 years ago. To the west, the land falls away into a deep river valley, to the east, fertile farmland t…
Published on 3 weeks, 5 days ago
324. Enjoy a mindful walk along the mighty earthwork running through the Welsh Borders known as Offa's Dyke
Season 19 Episode 25
From the end of Saxon England last week, we head to the height of Saxon power in Mercia and the reign of King Offa (757-796). Plodcast host Fergus takes a walk along Offa's great work – a massive def…
Published on 4 weeks, 1 day ago
Sound Escape 246. Kingfisher calls and dipper song on the rushing river
Season 19
You've wandered down to the river to listen to its gentle song – but what's that strange birdsong? A metallic chirruping from the far bank... it's a dipper, it's while bib bobbing at the water's edge…
Published on 1 month ago