June '09
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Announcements:

Loch Visions at Royal Highland Show 2009 in Edinburgh, please come along for tips on photography, to buy prints or just for a wee chat

Last month Loch Visions won National Countryside Alliance Award - Best Rural Enterprise

Follow on Experience '09
Brand new and very exciting weekends and days out for 2009 are online now.

Guests
Pictures from 26th of March and 20th of May 2009

Guests from our Follow on and extended experiences
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:

Fussy Hoodie

Take two with the hoodies (see last month for part one). Unfortunately most of this and last month was taken up trying to get one shot, a picture of the crow wings spread in mid flight. Virtually the last shot of the month and I managed to achieve something I was happy with (see main image). However through all that time I did witness some other fantastically interesting behaviour. This particular crow I was working with lived near a B&B in Oban, every morning the owner would throw waste bread out to the garden. Herring gulls would dash in, eat as much as they could then fly off all in a fluster. Crow was much more sophisticated, it would gently meander in, chase of any gulls that were in the way, grab some bread and then hide it. It would hide it all over the house, little did the owner know he has bread everywhere, in the tiles, drain pipes, under flower pots, on the beach, buried under grass in the garden, the list is endless. When the crow decided it was actually hungry enough to eat and if the bread was too hard it would fly over to the river and dunk it in the water to soften up, even my best home made bread received the same aloof treatment. The more I watch these magnificent animals the more amazed and humbled I am at their superb ability to think.

Till next month.

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