September '08
Welcome to the September news letter. October news letter delayed due to location work on Mull

Announcements:

Loch Visons wins another award
Best economic and community impact tourism award - top prize click here to read more

Follow on Experience
Brand new and very exciting weekends and days out are now available, spaces are going so please book early.

Guests
Pictures from one day experiences 30th of June-8th of September'08

Guests from our Follow ons
Sensational images from our Follow On and Extended Wildlife experience are available for viewing now. click here

Loch Visions launches Online ordering of Gift Vouchers - click here to buy vouchers online

Stories and pictures: A Surprising Tern of events

August and most of July has been extremely busy with experiences and we've seen some truly spectacular sights, including spiders ripping apart daddy long legs, black throated divers feeding their young, and our red squirrels are back after a 2 year absence. So all in all a magnificent time and thanks to all my clients who have made it possible.
However due to being so busy with the experiences my own cameras have been gathering dust since mid July. This month features a shot from my Tern collection, which was in fact the last wildlife photograph I took this summer.

A client who came on our Puffin trip told me that he had spotted Terns feeding young (and he captured a magnificent shot of it). I have photographed terns in most situations now except this so I was extremely keen to investigate. Terns are fantastic as they clearly indicate whether they are happy or not with you being around so you can gauge very easily if you need to back off. I took around 3 hours to do my approach, moving a little closer every 20 minutes or so.

This way the Terns seem to accept me and kept on feeding their one wee chick. I knew I was not a threat as when a Gull came too close, the Terns went crazy and the Gull was taken out, tail feathers nipped and generally discouraged from every coming close again. Eventually I crept in to photograph the chick getting fed from some of the most protective and diligent parents I have seen in the natural world. The only problem is after seeing a Tern in attack mode on the Gulls, I now think that to truly represent this amazing animal a shot like that is essential……so roll on next year.

Till next month.

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News Flash
Loch Visions wins another national business award