February/March '09
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This month Loch Visions wins Scottish Countryside Alliance Best Rural Enterprise of the year

Philip Price has done a 3 part mini series on BBC landward programme
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Follow on Experience '09
Brand new and very exciting weekends and days out for 2009 are online now.

Guests
Pictures from 9th of Jan '09 to 13th Feb '09 available for viewing

Guests from our Follow on and extended experiences
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Loch Visions launches Online ordering of Gift Vouchers - click here to buy vouchers online

Stories and pictures:

A rare glimpse of a Common Shrew

The Common Shrew: by far the most difficult animal I have ever attempted to photograph, and attempted is all I have done. The shot you see here is one of only two I got in two weeks of hide work. This will make some of our past experience clients smile as some of them have great Shrew shots that were taken while in the same hide for only a couple of hours. The Shrew is one of our smallest species of mammal and has an incredibly high metabolism so needs to eat every few hours. Great I think to myself, if I put a little food out they will be so desperate to eat that they will keep coming back till I get my shot. Problem is they move so quickly and move on to other locations so often that in a 4 hour hide session they may only come to the food once have a quick bite and leg it all in a matter of seconds. Thus I had to sit there, finger on button staring at the same spot for all that time. Sometimes I noticed it would go incredibly dark, but that sorted itself once I'd opened my eyes again. Normally when I nod off I notice myself doing it, this time it was strange in the sense that I would only realise I had my eyes shut well after they were and did not have any warning. How many shots I missed this way I will never know but in my head the little devils were dancing and playing all over the wall every time!

As you can see this animal has a magnificent face when up close, very elegant and almost fox like. The second picture is a poor picture but I include it as it lets you see what an interesting and strange jaw they have.

Probably the most unproductive two weeks of work I have ever done, but that moment when your heart hammers as a wee nose pokes its way out of the gloom is magical and makes all the time waiting seem perfectly understandable.

Till next month.

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