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Claire White visits Kirsty Budge and her sister Aimee at their farm on Shetland. They are one of nine new monitor farms in Scotland set up to help improve the way farms are run and encourage farmers to try new things.

With the announcement last year that beavers are to receive official protection and will be allowed to expand and grow populations in Scotland, experts are now trying to work out the realities of the first mammal reintroduction in this country for hundreds of years. Euan asks Susan Davis of the Scottish Wildlife Trust, how things might work.

Mark is in St Abbs speaking to Sarah Russell from the St Abbs Marine Reserve and Liza Cole from St Abbs head reserve about how important the area is for wildlife.

In 2015 the RNLI decided to close down the St Abbs lifeboat station on what is a very popular coastline. An appeal was then set up to fund an independent lifeboat for St Abbs and after a donation from a well-known biscuit manufacturer The Thomas Tunnock was launched in September last year. Mark went to catch up with the crew to find out how things were getting on.

The Scottish government recently designated an area on the west coast as a porpoise protection area. But how much do we know about Scotland's smallest member of the whale family. Euan finds out more about them from Dr Kate Brooks of Marine Scotland.

In 1881 the village of Eyemouth suffered the largest loss of life from a marine accident in Scottish history. A 5 metre long bronze sculpture to honour the widows and children left in the wake of the Eyemouth disaster has been created by artist Jill Watson. Mark heard about the disaster from local historian, Jim Evans.
Something very strange has been going on at the Montrose Basin reserve. Kingfishers have been leaving the bones of sticklebacks on branches and perches. Euan went to investigate.

Beatrice Charnley has just completed her degree at Gray's School of Art in Aberdeen where she chose to look at the relationship of man with the potato. Her project was inspired by her work at TLC potatoes near Banchory where she roped in her colleagues to help create some potato related design. Mark went to meet Beatrice and have a look at her work.

Slow TV is all the rage at the moment and we thought we could make this work on Out of Doors as we take a moment just to hear the sounds around us.