Grey seals of Scotland: my lost tapes from 1994
2/24/202647 min
Today, a fun trip down memory lane!
Lots of things have shaped my life and work as an ecologist, and this experience when I was 25 was one of them. As I wrapped up my master's degree at the University of Durham in England, I was hired onto a grey seal project on some tiny, uninhabited islands off the coast of Scotland.
While I was there, I recorded the seals and the six weeks of fieldwork on my Walkman cassette recorder. I had no idea I’d be digging into those archives 32 years later!
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Hey, wild listeners. I'm so excited to share this episode with you, a little trip down memory lane for sure. Thanks for tuning in. If you're enjoying The Wild and you want more content, check out our Patreon. We've got loads of extras, including a fun chatty series I've got going on with my friend Ken about the behind-the-scenes making of The Wild. There's a link to Patreon in the show notes. Okay, enjoy the show. [cassette clacking] I found this, uh, small box of, of audio cassettes in my attic not long ago. And, you know, even just the sound and smell and feel of the cassettes, it was so nostalgic. And I literally dusted off my old stereo to play it on. [cassette clacking] The noise you can hear is a, a wiener outside our tent. And to have all these sounds from my past come out, it was so surreal. We're now on the island of Canna. We came over yesterday at low tide when you can get across the