Podcasts about red squirrels

Mark visits the Montrose Air Station Museum to hear about a new addition to their collection, part of a Halifax Bomber, which crashed in the Angus glens in 1944. Shan Brewis tells us the story behind the plane crash, and how the piece of wreckage came to be discovered exactly 80 years after the tragedy.Red Squirrels in Scotland are often under threat, but Rachel finds out about the newest concern for our native population. Speaking to Meja Vesterlund from Saving Scotland's Squirrels, she hears about the threat of squirrel pox.Global celebrations have been taking place this week for World Gaelic Week. Mark spoke to Robyn Ireland, Gaelic Officer with Nature.Scot, about the Forgotten Woodlands project, which mapped Gaelic place names in order to show historically wooded areas across Scotland, demonstrating both the ecological and cultural relevance of the Gaelic language.Roslin Glen Country Park is something of a hidden gem, close by to the well-known Rosslyn Chapel. Mark is shown around by park ranger Alan Krumholds, who divulges the interesting industrial past of the area, and its present day, flourishing flora and fauna.Erected in 2014, the Tom Weir Statue in Balmaha is a fitting tribute to the popular mountaineer, author and broadcaster. Rachel talks to John Urquhart, from the conservation charity ‘Friends of Loch Lomond and The Trossachs', to reflect on the decade since the statue's installation and the new campaign to upgrade the signage and information in the area.Professor Catherine Heymans joins us on the programme, reflecting on the Planetary Parade phenomena that has gripped the UK over the past week, and shares her thoughts on the benefits of getting out to gaze up at the night sky.Lossiemouth Community Council has discovered an innovative use for last year's Christmas trees. Phil visits the beach where these discarded trees are being repurposed as a defence against coastal erosion.Rachel is out on the Water of Leith with wildlife photographer Tom Kelly, to find out about the rich variety of species that he captures on a daily basis at his patch along the river.

In this week's episode, we're going to be talking about a project to save red squirrels and a city made from gingerbread. We're also going to be having a big debate about whether school dinners should ditch desserts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dave talks to Charlie from Red Squirrel about charity fundraising and Zoe's Law

KAXE Staff Phenologist John Latimer provides his weekly assessment of nature in Northern Minnesota. This is the week of Nov. 5, 2024.

Donna Mullen, Ecologist and author of 'Make Your Home a Nature Reserve'.

Macca Chats to John and Emily WightFibre's Commitment to Red Squirrel Conservation

In this podcast I chat with James who takes us on his journey from game keeper to part of the saving Scotland Red Squirrel team.The Aberdeenshire team have worked really hard over the last 14 years to control the non native grey squirrel around Aberdeenshire and help the Red Squirrel get a good foot hold again.The 2024 squirrel survey can be filled in here https://scottishsquirrels.org.uk/2024-great-scottish-squirrel-survey/Instagram https://www.instagram.com/the_outdoor_gibbon/

KAXE Staff Phenologist John Latimer provides his weekly assessment of nature in Northern Minnesota. This is the week of March 14, 2024.

Should we celebrate the arrival of new species to the UK or drive them out? Tom Heap and Helen Czerski investigate the role of alien invasive species in the British countryside and beyond. Tom and Helen hear about non native earthworms invading North America, posing a threat to forests by changing the soil. They discuss whether it's now time to be less judgmental about alien invasive species with Professor Chris Thomas, an expert in Anthropocene Biodiversity at the University of York. Rare Earth meets conservationists 'holding the line' against Grey Squirrels on Tayside, to give Red Squirrels a chance to re-establish. Ecologist Conor McKinney shares his experiences of trying to keep the remote St Kilda archepelago, off Scotland, free of invasive predators which could decimate the islands' globally important seabird breeding colonies. Produced by Sarah Swadling for BBC Audio Bristol in conjunction with the Open University

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Skip the Queue is brought to you by Rubber Cheese, a digital agency that builds remarkable systems and websites for attractions that helps them increase their visitor numbers. Your host is  Kelly Molson, Founder of Rubber Cheese.Download the Rubber Cheese 2023 Visitor Attraction Website Report - the annual benchmark statistics for the attractions sector.If you like what you hear, you can subscribe on iTunes, Spotify, and all the usual channels by searching Skip the Queue or visit our website rubbercheese.com/podcast.If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave us a five star review, it really helps others find us. Show references: https://carbonsix.digital/https://www.linkedin.com/in/pmarden/Paul Marden is the Founder and Managing Director of Carbon Six Digital and the CEO of Rubber Cheese. He is an Umbraco Certified Master who likes to think outside the box, often coming up with creative technical solutions that clients didn't know were possible. Paul oversees business development and technical delivery, specialising in Microsoft technologies including Umbraco CMS, ASP.NET, C#, WebApi, and SQL Server. He's worked in the industry since 1999 and has vast experience of managing and delivering the technical architecture for both agencies and client side projects of all shapes and sizes. Paul is an advocate for solid project delivery and has a BCS Foundation Certificate in Agile. https://www.rubbercheese.com/https://www.linkedin.com/in/kellymolson/Kelly Molson is the Founder of Rubber Cheese, a user focused web design and development agency for the attraction sector. Digital partners to Eureka! The National Children's Museum, Pensthorpe, National Parks UK, Holkham, Visit Cambridge and The National Marine Aquarium.Kelly regularly delivers workshops and presentations on sector focused topics at national conferences and attraction sector organisations including ASVA, ALVA, The Ticketing Professionals Conference and the Museum + Heritage Show.As host of the popular Skip the Queue Podcast for people working in or working with visitor attractions, she speaks with inspiring industry experts who share their knowledge of what really makes an attraction successful.Recent trustee of The Museum of the Broads.  Transcription:  Kelly Molson: Welcome to Skip the Queue, a podcast for people working in or working with visitor attractions. I'm your host, Kelly Molson. In this new monthly slot, Rubber Cheese CEO Paul Marden joins me to discuss different digital related topics. In this episode, we'll talk about how you can make your site more interactive and the tasks and costs associated with that. You can subscribe on all the usual channels by searching Skip the Queue. Kelly Molson: Hello. Back for a fourth time. Paul Marden: Hello. Kelly Molson: What attraction have you visited most recently, and what did you love about it? Paul Marden: Do I go first? I always go first. Kelly Molson: We've got a format now. Don't break the format. I'm comfortable. Paul Marden: I went to the Titanic Museum just recently. We were exhibiting, actually, at the Association of Science and Discovery Centres at their annual conference in Belfast, which was actually at W5 in the Titanic quarter of Belfast. And I could talk loads about W5, which I will do in another session. But the place that I went to that I was most kind of emotionally moved by which I'm a bit of a geek and I'm fairly concrete in terms of my emotional stuff, for me to feel moved. Kelly Molson: Yeah. It's normally me that's got the blubbing. Paul Marden: Yeah. So I was blown away by the experience at the Titanic Museum. I've never been to a museum with so few artefacts, which, of course, is because everything was lost at sea. And so the whole museum is about telling the story through reproductions and immersive experiences, which was all amazing. But then you stumble upon one of the original artefacts as you're wandering around, and there's only a handful of them, but it hit me like a brick wall when I actually came across them. So there's a life jacket. There's only twelve of those left in existence, and they've got one of them at the museum. And you walk into this room, where all of the names of the victims of this tragedy are on this massive wall. And it's a darkened room, but lit in the centre of the room was this one life jacket. Paul Marden: Amazing. And then you walk around and there's a section talking about the root cause of the accident. And there are the keys to the binocular store from the crow's nest, which happened to be in the second officer's pocket. And he had to get off the ship in Southampton and he didn't get back on, and so there were no keys. And so the people that were in the crow's nest couldn't open the box with the binoculars that would have led them to see the iceberg. Kelly Molson: Wow. What a story. That wasn't in the film. Paul Marden: No, it wasn't in the film. So it's really impactful. And then the storytelling was amazing, but completely lost on me. So I was chatting to. I made a new friend, Lucinda Lewis, the CEO of Catalyst Science and Discovery Centre, and we would, like, both say how amazing it was, how impactful it was. And she was like, "Yeah, and the dominoes." And I'm like, "Dominoes? What dominoes?" Paul Marden: And she was like, "Did you not see when you were looking at all of the root causes, they wrote them on these big pillars that were toppling, showing you the domino effect." I was like, "Okay, yeah, that was completely lost on me." Kelly Molson: So lesson for you is you need to pay more attention to the interpretation next time. Paul Marden: Completely clueless to the subtext of what was going on around me. But the story was amazing. Kelly Molson: Story is really cool. Yeah. I have never heard that before. That's really impressive. I think that picture that you painted of all the names with the one kind of life jacket in the middle of it is so powerful. I can see it in my head, but I've never seen it. Paul Marden: That was only one of a dozen kind of really powerful memories that I've got of being just blown away by their storytelling and how they communicated what happened. It was just an amazing place. Kelly Molson: Nice. I've got it. I missed that I couldn't make it to the conference this year because I was elsewhere. Paul Marden: Absolutely. What have you been doing recently? Where have you been? Kelly Molson: So this is a very recent one, literally last week, last Thursday, I was very kindly invited to go and visit the Ashmolean Museum, which is a free to enter museum. But what I really liked is they have a very large donations area as you first walk in and you've got card donations. Beep. So easy. I never have cash, so that was a big thumbs up for me. The museum is brilliant. I mean, it has some brilliant exhibitions in it that are there. They're always there. But I was really keen to go and see their colour revolution exhibition, which is all around Victorian art, fashion and design. Some of you might not know this about me, but I was a graphic designer in the past, actually. Probably. Actually, loads of you people know about that. Loads. Kelly Molson: I was a graphic designer once upon a time and I was a packaging designer and just design and colour. And also I've got a real passion for kind of interior design as well. So all of these things just, I have a big love of. So this exhibition for me was like, "This is the one. This is a big tick." What I found really fascinating is that Victorian Britain has this kind of connotation of being really dull and dreary, and the exhibition was kind of exploring that. It's absolutely incorrect, but they start with Queen Victoria's morning dress, which is a really powerful image. So after Prince Albert's sudden death, she plunged into a very deep grief. And she actually wore. I didn't know this. She wore black for the remaining 40 years of her life. I had no idea that she. Kelly Molson: I mean, I knew she mourned for a really long time. I had no idea she never wore another colour again. So she's obviously such an iconic image, an iconic person of that era, that image probably sticks with you, which is why it adds to that illusion of Victorian's love in the dark completely. But they didn't they really love colour.  And they love to experiment with it. And they have a big thing about insects and animals and bringing that into the colours that they wore. And the jewellery, like, some of the jewellery, like this beetle necklace, was just incredible. And there is a lot of. I know that they have a lot of that in their kind of fabrics and their kind of artwork from that time as well. But what I really loved is really small artefact in the museum that I totally loved. So it was a very early colour chart, like a paint sample colour chart. So this is quite current for me at the minute. Kelly Molson: My office is full of furnishings because we're renovating a cottage in Norfolk and it's not ready, but I've had to order all the things for it or find them off Facebook Marketplace and eBay and charity shops and vintage places and my office. So colour chart and all of that kind of stuff is, like, right up here at the moment. But anyway, there was an 1814 Scottish artist called Patrick Syme, and he tried to solve the problem of how to describe colour by giving each one of them a name. But he draw nature to do this. So you have, like, mole's breath now from Barrow and ball and lighting green and those kind of stuff. Well, this is where this started in the Victorian age, so it's absolutely beautiful. I posted it on my LinkedIn. Kelly Molson: But this colour chart is just gorgeous and it gives a number for each colour. So number 54. Its name was Duck green. The animal that it was named after is the neck of Mallard. I actually thought the colour was neck of Mallard, which I was like, that's absolutely brilliant. The vegetable that it was similar to is the upper disc of yew leaves, and the mineral is. I don't know if I'm going to pronounce this Ceylanite and I Googled it isn't green. I had no idea what ceylanite is, but it's not green. Paul Marden: Yeah, I'd struggle to identify a yew tree, let alone the upper disc green of a yew tree's leaf. Kelly Molson: Well, there you go. Honestly, I loved it. I loved every minute of it. It was really interesting. And that for me was like, I know it's a really small artefact, but it was the standout one for me because it just connected with some of it is so current for me at the moment. It was £15 pounds to go and see this exhibition and that is money well spent. It's open now until the 18th of Feb 2024. So totally get yourselves along to visit that. And also their restaurant and food is top notch. Paul Marden: Was it good? Was it really okay? Kelly Molson: We'll talk about that another time. Paul Marden: We've done a few of the Oxford Uni museums, but we've not done the Ashmolean yet, so that needs to be on my list of places to go. Kelly Molson: Yeah, definitely worth a little visit. Okay. Right. We're going to talk about interactivity today. Making your website more interactive can improve engagement which is more likely to improve your conversion rate. But very few attractions have interactive elements, which is quite surprising, actually. So we're going to talk about how you can make your site a bit more interactive and immersive. So one, the stat from the survey is that, 53% of visitor attractions survey don't have any interactive elements on their websites. Kelly Molson: So that's like. I'm quite surprised about that because during the pandemic, went all in on interactivity. We had to. It was the only way that you could kind of get people to your site and get people engaged in what you were doing. And we're talking about things like virtual tours, interactive maps, or even just integrating video and audio on your site is a way of making it interactive as well. So, yeah, I was quite surprised that it was so low, actually. Paul Marden: Yeah, it surprised me as well, because a lot of the people that we talk to want that kind of interactive content added into their sites. Kelly Molson: Do you think. And I'm not trying to make us idiots here again, because we did enough of that on the last episode, but do you think that people understand that video and audio is an interactive element? Paul Marden: That's a good point. Kelly Molson: Or is our expectation of it to be more. Because audio and video, do we see that as a standard thing now? We don't see that as a special element. Paul Marden: That could be absolutely true. And we talked a lot about things that we could do to improve the survey for next time. There's a real risk, isn't there? Because you could ask a lot more very detailed questions. Do you have a virtual tour? Do you have an interactive map? Do you have video and audio on your site? And now, all of a sudden, we've gone from one question to three questions, and we're asking too much of everybody when they fill stuff in, so you end up having to have broader questions, but those broader questions themselves become a little ambiguous. So maybe there's an element of. It could be that there's a bunch of people in that 53% of people that don't have interactivity, that may have stuff that is video or audio that we would consider to be interactive, but they don't. Kelly Molson: Do you think as well, that because life has gone back to relative normality for the majority of us, that we just are not engaging with those things as much, or they just not seem to be as relevant anymore? Paul Marden: Yeah, it's interesting, isn't it? We talk about audience personas and trying to personalise the site to give people exactly the content that's relevant to them. Who is the target audience for the virtual tour? Is the target audience for a virtual tour the people that are going to come visit? Is it a way of enticing people to come and physically come on site? Is it a way of extending the reach of the attraction, or let's say it's a cultural or museum kind of setting? Is it a way for them to extend the reach of their collection to people that can't come. Understanding what the interactivity is there for and how it enables the audience to achieve the goal that they're trying to achieve. And for the clients, the attraction themselves, to be able to achieve what their goal is for that audience group is interesting. Paul Marden: Interactivity for its own sake doesn't help anyone if you're not really thought about why you're putting it there. Kelly Molson: Yeah, I was just trying to think. I've got a really good case study of this and I've forgotten the name of the place. I want to talk about it, but I've forgotten the name of it, so I'll give you an explanation of it instead. Years ago, so. Oh, God, I think this is. In 2015, Lee and I went to Australia on holiday. Lee actually asked me to marry him in Australia at Ayers Rock. It was very romantic. Paul Marden: Oh, wow. Kelly Molson: But one of the best, I should say that was the best trip, obviously, that was the best trip, but one of the other best trips that went on while were there. When were in Melbourne, I've gone to the island and I've forgotten the name of the island. It's come off totally out of my head. But went to see the little penguins, so the penguin parade that comes in. These penguins come in to shore every night and you can go and watch them come in. It's like an army of miniature penguins. And it genuinely is the most magical thing I've ever seen in my whole life. And you can't take photos because it hurts their eyes. So you're immersing yourself into this experience and it's all up here in my head. Kelly Molson: Well, during the pandemic, they started live broadcasting it on Facebook and I was like, "Shut up. This is amazing." Because it's an expensive trip back to Australia, but I'd love to do that again. I would absolutely 100% go back and do that again.  But this was like a magical opportunity to see it in my home office and watch it as well. So those kind of opportunities, I think, are pretty magical. Paul Marden: You reminded me of in the middle of lockdown, I was obsessed by watching the webcam at Monterey Bay Aquarium. Kelly Molson: I just got something else that got obsessed about a few weeks ago, which is I watched the webcam Sandringham have got. No, is it Sandringham or Balmoral? One of them have got a webcam with the Red Squirrels. I think it's Balmoral. And I got absolutely, totally obsessed with it. Had it on in the corner of the screen just while I was working, just going, "Is it there yet? Is it back yet? Red squirrel. Red squirrel."Paul Marden: I think it might be. The two of us were looking at penguins and sea otters during the height of the pandemic when were desperate to travel. Now, watching Red squirrels on a webcam might be, might not have the same justification for the rest of your day's life. Kelly Molson: It's really cool. It's really cool. You don't get to see red squirrels very often. Paul Marden: No, you don't. Kelly Molson: Anyway, apologies went off on a total tangent, but you can see, look, we've got really animated about this, so you can totally see the value of having those kind of experiences on your website and being to engage with different audiences. Paul Marden: Should we do a stat? Should we talk about some numbers?Kelly Molson: Yeah, what's the benefits? Paul Marden: Yeah. So HubSpot again. We talk about HubSpot data all the time. But HubSpot found that interactive content like quizzes, assessments and polls can increase time spent on a website by 80%. That one's lifted straight out of the survey that we put into there. But there's some more. The Content Marketing Institute shows that 81% of marketers agreed that interactive content grabbed more attention than static content. But that chimes with the data that we gathered from people, doesn't it? Because a lot of people do think that this is important stuff. Maybe not quite to the same level that the Content Marketing Institute found, but obviously people in the results set from our survey thought that this was important. Kelly Molson: Yeah. And I think it depends on what that interactive content is. So, interestingly, when we did the live webinar for the report, we had someone on the webinar mention that they were a bit worried about distraction. So we talk a lot about focusing people's attention on the job in hand, which is ultimately showcase what your attraction does, get them to buy a ticket. And this person said, are we distracting them from those journeys by doing that? But I don't know if it's part of the purchase journey. I think it might be post purchase. It feels for me like post purchase, getting them to come back and engage in your site, repeat visit stuff, just those things around quizzes and assessment and polls and stuff like that. And also this example that I just gave about the little penguins. Kelly Molson: I absolutely will go back to that place one day and being able to engage with it keeps it front and centre of my mind to go. When we go back to Australia, I'm going to take my kid to see that because she will love it. I'll make sure she loves it. And I don't know if it's part of the first point of engagement. I think it's post purchase engagement. Paul Marden: That's interesting. Yeah. What the problems say? Kelly Molson: Anyway, problems? Sustainability. Paul Marden: Yeah. Shall I share a bugbear of mine that I share regularly in meetings all the time. But a lot of interactive content, especially the stuff that uses video, can be inherently unsustainable. Video uses bandwidth. And a lot of people don't think of the impact that websites can have on CO2 emissions. Yeah, it's a link that I don't think many people make. I certainly didn't until there's been a lot of talk around in our industry about this in the last couple of years and it's really opened my eyes up. It's easy to understand if you work for an airline, you can see the CO2 emissions coming out the back of the plane, but if you build websites, you don't see it necessarily, but video consumes bandwidth and bandwidth takes all of these things, the compute power to produce the video and publish it out onto the Internet. Paul Marden: And then to shift all of that data across the Internet ultimately uses energy, and that energy comes at the cost of producing CO2. So one of the obvious ways, if we're just talking about video itself, because video is one kind of more interactive element, avoiding autoplaying videos, which is my absolute bugbear when you land on a home page of a website. And the video autoplays that for me, now that my eyes have been opened to the impact of it, I only used to see the conversion rate benefit, but now the cost associated with that is clear in my mind. And I think if we can avoid doing that and find other ways to increase conversion, I think that's really important. But also doing things to make sure that we understand what the sustainability impact of the web pages that we produce. Paul Marden: So as we make our web pages more complex, they will produce more CO2 as a result of doing that. And I think as people become more aware of this, the world is going to change. At the moment, the people that buy from us, this is not something that is front and centre of their minds in the buying process, I think, at the moment. And there's a lot of power in the hands of the marketers and the procurement people to make it so that technical people like us that build things are required to take that sustainability perspective into account when we're building things and making sure that we build things sustainably. Kelly Molson: And then there's accessibility. So interactive elements can be really great for people that can't visit your site, for one example. However, the digital aspect of that means that you could intentionally put something on your site which actually is less accessible for people who have visual impairments or hearing impairments, for example. Paul Marden: Yeah, absolutely. If you've got video with audio, have you got subtitles? If you've got video, do you have audio descriptions that describe what the video is showing? If you've got an interactive map, how would you provide a more accessible way of being able to see the interactive map? If you've got a 3D, interactive, immersive virtual tour, how will you interact with that? If you can't see it, to interact with it, those are all things that people need to be thinking about. And many of the institutions that we work with will have a statutory obligation to think about it as well. It's not just a nice to have, it's a statutory obligation to do it as well. Kelly Molson: Yeah, for sure. Okay, so who's doing it well? I think we should just caveat this one by saying that our report and a survey and subsequent report are all anonymous. Kelly Molson: If we ever share anyone's information, that is, in relation to the report data. We have asked for their express permission. Prior to this. Prior to sharing. In this instant, we've just gone out and found some stuff on people's websites and gone, “We really like this. This is really cool.” So we're not talking about these institutions in relation to survey data? Paul Marden: No, absolutely. Should we talk about. The first one in our list was Mary Rose Trust. And the Mary Rose Museum has got an amazing array of interactive artefacts that they've listed off the bottom of the seabed and made it available on the website so you can come.  Kelly Molson: With your mouse, you can turn it around. Not with your hand.Paul Marden: Not yet. The technology isn't quite there yet, but, yeah, you can interact with those artefacts and I think that's pretty amazing for an organisation like them, to be able to share those, because they've got an amazing collection of Tudor artefacts and to be able to share those with the outside world is really impressive. Yeah. Kelly Molson: So that's like a simple technology where you can kind of 3D model the artefact and you can spin it around and you can click on elements of it that will tell you a little bit about this part of it or where it was found or the condition of it, et cetera. So that is super cool. What was the other one on this list that you were like, “This is great.”Paul Marden: I really loved the Museum of London's Victorian Walk. It's a 3D tour affair and obviously they've scanned, taken photos and composed this together into this really cool 3D tour system that you can just move around and experience what life is like on a Victorian walk. I was blown away by, you were talking about the colour of Victorian England. Yeah, it was a really colourful experience. So in my mind, it was a bit like going into diagonally in Hogwarts in the Harry Potter world. It felt that kind of side street of London kind of thing. But you really got into it. It was very cool. Kelly Molson: Oh, that's one for me. So I should go and do that and do a little comparison of how colourful it was based on my Ashmolean experience. Paul Marden: Absolutely. Kelly Molson: Okay, next steps that someone can take if they're thinking about stuff like this. So assess what you can do really quickly and easily. So what do we already have? Paul Marden: Yeah, a lot of people are already going to have stuff, aren't they? So what video have they got? What audio have they got? Were they like Mary Rose and had a bunch of 3D scans of their artefacts that then you can stick into a tool and put onto your website. Obviously, if you've got a large collection and you want to 3D scan everything and put it onto your website, that's not a trivial undertaking, is it? But if you've already got the 3D scans of stuff and you need to then make it available on the website, then the step might be relatively much simpler than scanning your whole collection. Kelly Molson: Yeah. So have a look through your video, your audio, your 3D elements. What do you already have, what can you make more of? And then what can you easily add to your current site? Paul Marden: Yeah, absolutely. A lot of websites can add video and audio just straight out of the box. I'm going to get a bit geeky and talk about iframes, but essentially an iframe is a little cut out area of your website that you can post a little bit of content into that a lot of different interactive tools on the web will enable you to do so. The 3D models. There's a tool that you can create 3D models of the world in that we've used on a number of different projects. And then you just embed it as an iframe, which is essentially take a URL of your 3D scan and you pop it into your website and it comes out and works on the page as is. It's pretty awesome. And takes so little effort for your developers to be able to add it to the site. Kelly Molson: Cool. And then think about what you could commission or think about some of the things that you could potentially look at as a larger piece of project work. Paul Marden: Yeah, I mean, there's a brainstorming exercise, there, isn't there, of trying to get lots of people together and come up with creative ideas and think about what you can do. Some of the other stuff that we've talked about. Easy. Doesn't take a lot of effort. You've got the assets already or it's relatively easy to add them to your site. But what else could you do? That takes a lot of effort and planning. Kelly Molson: Ask your visitors. Ask people what more they'd like to see. Paul Marden: Yeah. Figuring out what your audience wants and how do you get them to that is step number one, isn't it? Kelly Molson: Okay, and then what kind of budget are we looking at for some of these things? Paul Marden: How long is a piece of string kind of question? This one isn't. It's really hard adding interactive maps onto your site that are fully accessible and easy to use. I guess you're looking at a few thousand pounds to be able to do that, potentially less depends on what you want to put into your interactive map, video and audio. If your website already supports it and you got a whole library of this stuff that you want to share with the outside world, it could cost you nothing but the time it takes you to add it to the site. And then you get into some of the more complex elements like the you can imagine that creating a 3D kind of immersive virtual walkthrough, that's not a trivial job. Paul Marden: If you want to go and photograph an entire exhibit, walk around the whole floor plan of your museum and create an amazing virtual tour. That's going to take some effort, both in terms of getting the right people to turn up with the right kit to be able to do that photography, and then in terms of the technology that's needed to turn that into a virtual tour, and then the effort to embed that into the website itself could be amazing. Probably not a cheap exercise.Kelly Molson: No, substantial investment, and just need to make sure that you're doing it for the right reasons and for the right audience as well. Also podcast if you are thinking about doing a podcast for your museum or your attraction, which I think is a genius idea, give us a shout and we'd be happy to share some of our kind of top tips. Kelly Molson: I think we did an episode on it back in the day with Paul Griffith from Painshill Park, who actually, he interviewed me on this podcast and we talked about some of the reasons that we did it, how we set it up, and some of the kind of costumes around that as well. So it's worth having a little bit through, dig through the archive, but if you got any questions on that then yeah, give us a shout. Good chat again today. I enjoyed this. Paul Marden: Been good, hasn't it? Kelly Molson: Yeah. I'll see you next time. Paul Marden: Thank you. Cheers, mate. Bye. Kelly Molson: Bye bye. Kelly Molson:  Thanks for listening to Skip The Queue. If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave us a five star review. It really helps others find us. And remember to follow us on Twitter for your chance to win the books that have been mentioned. Skip the queue is brought to you by Rubber Cheese, a digital agency that builds remarkable systems and websites for attractions that helps them increase their visitor numbers. You can find show notes and transcriptions from this episode and more over on our website, rubbercheese.com/podcast. The 2023 Visitor Attraction Website Report is now LIVE! 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Mark is in Hazlehead Park in Aberdeen hearing how the team from Saving Scotland's Red Squirrels is working to remove the grey squirrel population from the city.In June 2021 fire destroyed the replica Iron Age Crannog on Loch Tay. In the years since, the Scottish Crannog Centre has moved location to the other side of the loch and the team has been working to create a new replica Iron Age village. Rachel went to see their progress and explore the new site.The Memorial Chapel in Arbroath's Western cemetery was designed by Patrick Allan-Fraser, who established the town's Hospitalfield House as a centre for arts and crafts, as a memorial to his late wife Elizabeth and her parents. It's a striking building but has never been used to its full potential. Laura Guthrie goes for a visit and hears how the Hospitalfield House team hope to use it.We continue to hear from each of the areas vying to be given National Park status. This week Mark is in Pitlochry hearing about the bid for the Tay Forest National Park.The recent stormy weather has caused a number of puffins to be stranded on North East beaches. We hear from the New Arc Wildlife Centre about why birds become stranded and what to do if you come across an injured bird.While Rachel visited the new Scottish Crannog Centre, she spoke to some of the team who are working to recreate the Iron Age village. There's a whole host of people on site including a traditional carpenter, archaeologists and a green woodworker.It's nearly 40 years since the Winter Garden at Saughton Park in Edinburgh was redeveloped. Rachel speaks to Craig Dunlop, Park and Green Space officer, about how the park has changed over the years.And we hear an excerpt from the recent Scotland Outdoors podcast looking back on the career of the late Charlie Allan. Charlie was a real North East Man O' Pairts - broadcaster, writer, farmer, singer and sportsman. We hear some of his archive recordings.

3/8: Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America by  Dan Flores  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Wild-New-World-Animals-America-ebook/dp/B09TQ2TMN2 Distinguished author Dan Flores's ambitious history chronicles the epoch in which humans and animals have coexisted in the “wild new world” of North America—a place shaped both by its own grand evolutionary forces and by momentous arrivals from Asia, Africa, and Europe. With portraits of iconic creatures such as mammoths, horses, wolves, and bison, Floresdescribes the evolution and historical ecology of North America like never before. 1914 RED SQUIRREL

How do red squirrels remember where they've hidden their nuts for later? Just how acrobatic are squirrels? (FYI: Squirrel parkour is a thing!) Anika and Esther find out all the super facts about red squireels with Sinah Drenske, PhD student at the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research in Germany. Enjoy a new episode every fortnight, and if YOU have a big Fact Detective question, send it to factdetectives@kinderling.com.au    Guest: Sinah Drenske, PhD student at the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research in Germany Hosts: Anika and Esther   Production: Cinnamon Nippard   Sound design: Josh Newth   Executive Producer: Lorna Clarkson    Hear it first on LiSTNR.   Listen ad-free on Kinderling. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sara Wheeler challenges the idea that there's an equivalence between loving nature and being a good person. 'This queerly opaque idea has embedded itself in the collective subconscious since Granny Smiths ripened in the Garden of Eden,' writes Sara, 'but recent concerns have raised its stock.' She argues that the logic of that is flawed. Producer: Adele Armstrong Sound: Graham Puddifoot Production coordinator: Katie Morrison Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith

KAXE Staff Phenologist John Latimer provides his weekly assessment of nature in Northern Minnesota. This is the week of Sept. 26, 2023.

This weeks In Your Nature podcast topic is the Pine Marten. Dr. Denise O'Meara of South East Technological University sat down with Ricky to chat about the Pine Martens' ecology, the reasons behind their amazing comeback in recent years, and how the Pine Martens comeback has helped the Red Squirrel population to begin to slowly recover in parts of Ireland.Bird of the Week is the Coal Tit, a species which like the Pine Marten can be found in mixed coniferous and even Sitka Spruce plantations.In Your Nature features Ricky Whelan, Biodiversity Officer with Offaly County Council and Niall Hatch of BirdWatch Ireland and is edited by Ann-Marie Kelly. The series is supported by Laois, Offaly, and Westmeath County Councils and the Heritage Council. 

That's why W.K. Kellogg brought in those Black Squirrels to Battle Creek, to chase'em off! Plus, the Red Wings' King George at the NHL Awards, and this guy had 107 animals (INCLUDING A CRAB) in his home!

Email the show Leave us a Speakpipe Discord Channel Patreon Page That's right it's show 700 and to celebrate we just invited lots of listeners to join us live on the show!

Conor Macauley, RTE Northern Correspondent discusses the comeback from near extinction of the pine marten across Northern Ireland

Welcome back to the greatest podcast ever podcasted! Once again, Jack is joined by Ellen Weatherford, Vikram Baliga & Ashley Bray to celebrate the holiday season! This time, Jack and Ellen share their favourite conservation success stories of 2022 and everyone looks forward to 2023 with some New Year's resolutions! We begin with Ellen talking all about the Grasshopper Sparrow and a huge area of land which has just been protected in Florida. Then, Jack talks all about the Red Squirrels, Grey Squirrels and Pine Martens of Scotland. Finally, Vikram jumps in with a great story all about prairie dogs, plague and black-footed ferrets! In the second part of the episode we discuss some of the audience's favourite stories of 2022! This includes: Pine Martens being spotted in London, the Saving Wildcats Project, lots of zoo babies, the Pine Hoverfly Conservation Project and the Kent Bison Project. Thank you so much to everyone who submitted a story for us to read! Finally, everyone shares their New Year's Resolutions! Happy Holiday from Pangolin, we hope you have had a marvellous 2022 and will have a magical 2023! Useful Links Don't forget to subscribe to the podcast and follow us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, TikTok & Instagram! We are @PangolinPodcast

Stupid News Extra 12-14-2022 …Endangered Red Squirrel shut the whole place down

This children's audiobook is being created from the Book "The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel" By Thornton W Burgess. This book was initially written around 1920 and the text is in the public domain and can be found anywhere public domain books can be found such as Gutternberg.org. This is the first book in his "The Adventures of . . ." book series that has 20 books in the series. I hope you like my version of the book and hope you continue to follow as I finished the book.

This children's audiobook is being created from the Book "The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel" By Thornton W Burgess. This book was initially written around 1920 and the text is in the public domain and can be found anywhere public domain books can be found such as Gutternberg.org. This is the first book in his "The Adventures of . . ." book series that has 20 books in the series. I hope you like my version of the book and hope you continue to follow as I finished the book.

This children's audiobook is being created from the Book "The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel" By Thornton W Burgess. This book was initially written around 1920 and the text is in the public domain and can be found anywhere public domain books can be found such as Gutternberg.org. This is the first book in his "The Adventures of . . ." book series that has 20 books in the series. I hope you like my version of the book and hope you continue to follow as I finished the book.

This children's audiobook is being created from the Book "The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel" By Thornton W Burgess. This book was initially written around 1920 and the text is in the public domain and can be found anywhere public domain books can be found such as Gutternberg.org. This is the first book in his "The Adventures of . . ." book series that has 20 books in the series. I hope you like my version of the book and hope you continue to follow as I finished the book.

This children's audiobook is being created from the Book "The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel" By Thornton W Burgess. This book was initially written around 1920 and the text is in the public domain and can be found anywhere public domain books can be found such as Gutternberg.org. This is the first book in his "The Adventures of . . ." book series that has 20 books in the series. I hope you like my version of the book and hope you continue to follow as I finished the book.

This children's audiobook is being created from the Book "The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel" By Thornton W Burgess. This book was initially written around 1920 and the text is in the public domain and can be found anywhere public domain books can be found such as Gutternberg.org. This is the first book in his "The Adventures of . . ." book series that has 20 books in the series. I hope you like my version of the book and hope you continue to follow as I finished the book.

This children's audiobook is being created from the Book "The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel" By Thornton W Burgess. This book was initially written around 1920 and the text is in the public domain and can be found anywhere public domain books can be found such as Gutternberg.org. This is the first book in his "The Adventures of . . ." book series that has 20 books in the series. I hope you like my version of the book and hope you continue to follow as I finished the book.

This children's audiobook is being created from the Book "The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel" By Thornton W Burgess. This book was initially written around 1920 and the text is in the public domain and can be found anywhere public domain books can be found such as Gutternberg.org. This is the first book in his "The Adventures of . . ." book series that has 20 books in the series. I hope you like my version of the book and hope you continue to follow as I finished the book.

This children's audiobook is being created from the Book "The Adventures of Chatter the Red Squirrel" By Thornton W Burgess. This book was initially written around 1920 and the text is in the public domain and can be found anywhere public domain books can be found such as Gutternberg.org. This is the first book in his "The Adventures of . . ." book series that has 20 books in the series. I hope you like my version of the book and hope you continue to follow as I finished the book.

This children's audiobook is being created from the Book "The Adventures of Chatter the Red Squirrel" By Thornton W Burgess. This book was initially written around 1920 and the text is in the public domain and can be found anywhere public domain books can be found such as Gutternberg.org. This is the first book in his "The Adventures of . . ." book series that has 20 books in the series. I hope you like my version of the book and hope you continue to follow as I finish the book

This children's audiobook is being created from the Book "The Adventures of Chatter the Red Squirrel" By Thornton W Burgess. This book was initially written around 1920 and the text is in the public domain and can be found anywhere public domain books can be found such as Gutternberg.org. This is the first book in his "The Adventures of . . ." book series that has 20 books in the series. I hope you like my version of the book and hope you continue to follow as I finished the book.

This children's audiobook is being created from the Book "The Adventures of Chatter the Red Squirrel" By Thornton W Burgess. This book was initially written around 1920 and the text is in the public domain and can be found anywhere public domain books can be found such as Gutternberg.org. This is the first book in his "The Adventures of . . ." book series that has 20 books in the series. I hope you like my version of the book and hope you continue to follow as I finished the book. 

This children's audiobook is being created from the Book "The Adventures of Chatter the Red Squirrel" By Thornton W Burgess. This book was initially written around 1920 and the text is in the public domain and can be found anywhere public domain books can be found such as Gutternberg.org. This is the first book in his "The Adventures of . . ." book series that has 20 books in the series. I hope you like my version of the book and hope you continue to follow as I finished the book. 

This children's audiobook is being created from the Book "The Adventures of Chatter the Red Squirrel" By Thornton W Burgess. This book was initially written around 1920 and the text is in the public domain and can be found anywhere public domain books can be found such as Gutternberg.org. This is the first book in his "The Adventures of . . ." book series that has 20 books in the series. I hope you like my version of the book and hope you continue to follow as I finished the book.

This children's audiobook is being created from the Book "The Adventures of Chatter the Red Squirrel" By Thornton W Burgess. This book was initially written around 1920 and the text is in the public domain and can be found anywhere public domain books can be found such as Gutternberg.org. This is the first book in his "The Adventures of . . ." book series that has 20 books in the series. I hope you like my version of the book and hope you continue to follow as I finished the book.

This children's audiobook is being created from the Book "The Adventures of Chatter the Red Squirrel" By Thornton W Burgess. This book was initially written around 1920 and the text is in the public domain and can be found anywhere public domain books can be found such as Gutternberg.org. This is the first book in his "The Adventures of . . ." book series that has 20 books in the series. I hope you like my version of the book and hope you continue to follow as I finished the book.

This children's audiobook is being created from the Book "The Adventures of Chatter the Red Squirrel" By Thornton W Burgess. This book was initially written around 1920 and the text is in the public domain and can be found anywhere public domain books can be found such as Gutternberg.org. This is the first book in his "The Adventures of . . ." book series that has 20 books in the series. I hope you like my version of the book and hope you continue to follow as I finished the book.

Paul Hawksbee and Andy Jacobs are joined in the pod by celebrity chef Tom Kerridge to promote his new cook book and the captain of Risley Cricket Club's Second XI after they bowled out their opponents for a record low of nine runs. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

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My guest today is Ben Heidorn, better known as @cybourgeoisie on Twitter. Ben is a Solidity developer who has been building crypto puzzles and games for several years. He is the CTO at crypto game studio Blockade Games, developers of Neon District, and principal developer on Josie Bellini's CyberBrokers, a massively on-chain SVG NFT collection that has been in the works for over two years. In this episode, Ben and I chat about many of the projects he's worked on over the years, including Torched Hearts, Plasma Bears, Tokens of Infection, F473, The Ledger of Szabo, and more. If you're excited to hear the details on how Ben stored more than 1400 SVG layers in over 2000 contracts on Ethereum L1 for CyberBrokers, make sure to stick around for the last third of this episode. It was a pleasure chatting with Ben about the early days of puzzling and cross-chain experimentation, and his more recent experience building sophisticated onchain NFT projects. I hope you enjoy the show. Interview by @nnnnicholas. Produced by @0xRavel. Topics discussed: COIN ARTIST and the invention of crypto puzzles Rhea Myers @Zd3N puzzle artist @Zd3N's Litecoin puzzle Torched Hearts Tokens of Infection (September 2019) (Etherscan) CryptoKitties Diego Rodriguez lead artist at Neon District David Hoover, founder of Red Squirrel technologies) wrote the original Neon District trophy contract (January 2018) Pineapple Arcade Plasma Bears (March 2019) (article, OpenSea) XCOPY plasma bear Loom Network, now-defunct alt-L1 EVM. Axie Infinity Loom DM: "We're shutting down tomorrow." The Ledger of Szabo (Aug 2019), cross chain Ethereum-Lightning puzzle game (team) (Etherscan) Die Kitty Dai (Feb 2020), demo (team picture), Etherscan JTobcat creator of the first NFT airdrop F473 (Fate) (2021) documentation,

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We talk to NUI Galway PhD researcher Emma Roberts who's asking citizens to record red squirrel sightings.

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Co-Champion of our Inaugural Squirrel Hunting Competition, Joe Seaburn joins us to talk squirrels, and what its like working squirrel hounds. In the past 5 years he has jumped into the game headfirst. He is now a member of several clubs and competes in squirrel dog circuits and competitions along the East Coast. We touch on different types of training, how a tournament works, and we even discover that there is bad blood and politics in the world of squirrel hunting… who would have known? It's a very interesting conversation and we hope everyone takes note, as well be applying some of this to next year's competition. ----------------------------- The Outdoor Drive Podcast Official Website: Theoutdoordrive.com Be Sure to Check Out Our Partners- Gator Outdoors: gatoroutdoors.com   Promo Code: OUTDOORDRIVE25 for 25% off your entire order Novix Treestands: novixoutdoors.com Promo Code: OUTDOORDRIVE15 for 15% off Novix products Zues Broadheads: neweraarchery.com Latitude Outdoors: latitudeoutdoors.com Nor'easter Game Calls: nor-eastergamecalls.com Rack Bracket: rack-bracket.com Promo Code: OUTDOORDRIVE10 for 10% off your purchase