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While Mark was on Deeside with Balmoral Estate ranger Glyn Jones looking for black grouse, Glyn mentioned some strange behaviour from the local capercaillie population. He tells Mark about the odd places caper have been found and what they’ve been getting up to.

This week’s Scotland Outdoors podcast featured a programme Mark made back in 2014 on the Island of Muck. After the death of the Laird of Muck, Lawrence MacEwen, last week, we hear an excerpt of Mark’s time on the island which showed an insight into island life with the Lawrence and his family.

World Otter Day falls on the last Wednesday of May and so this weekend Euan pays tribute to a famous literary otter, Tarka.

There have been lots of Orca spotted off the Aberdeenshire coast recently. Euan heads to Fraserburgh to see if he can see any and also hears a kayaker’s very close encounter with an orca pod.

A Glasgow University team of archaeologists have started work looking for artefacts from the 1988 Glasgow Garden Festival. Paul English heads along to see what kind of things they are looking for and to find out what happened to some of the festival’s famous attractions.

Earlier this week research by Butterfly Conservation revealed that more than one in every three Scottish butterflies and nearly half of all UK species are now under threat. We chat live to Tom Prescott from the charity to find out more.

Mark visits the National Museum of Flight near East Fortune and hears the remarkable tale of Eric ‘Winkle’ Brown, the Royal Navy's most decorated pilot.

And Euan has another mystery bird to tease us with.