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Preparations for The Loch Visions Squirrel
Weekend February 2012
Plans are going well for the Squirrel Weekend
this month - with two new locations being prepared to entice these
cheeky characters into the open.

Our best location at the moment seems to
be out of our kitchen window where they can be seen doing acrobatics
in the trees and nibbling hungrily on the cones of a nearby conifer.

Loch Visions Otter Weekend
November 2011
With slight apprehension Philip and Lizzie
headed off to the Isle of Carna on Loch Sunart on a cold November
Tuesday to prepare for the first Loch Visions Otter Weekend.
Our accommodation was in a small stone cottage
on the island that only has electricity (via a generator) for a
few hours morning and night, and is otherwise heated by a wood burning
stove and lit by candles.
On Friday our intrepid fellow photographers
arrived at Laga Bay and were transported over to Carna, where wrapped
up against the cold they headed off along the shore.

A brief sighting wetted their appetites that
evening but as the light was low no photographs of note were taken.
That evening tales of photographic exploits abounded and technical
knowledge was shared in preparation for the next day.
Before light we set out along the shore to
a small peninsula that had been the best location so far that week.
For three chilly hours we camped out. Cold and a little dispirited
they were seen trudging back towards the cottage, when suddenly
Philip dropped to the ground and gestured for the others to crawl
like marines through the seaweed towards the shore.

photograph by Chris Smith
There, swimming towards the shore was our
subject. Excitement built as the otter ventured out onto the shore
just a couple metres in front of everyone.

photograph by GeorgeHouston
The next hour was awesome. The otter scratched,
shook, yawned, peered about and groomed while cameras clicked and
wirred.

photograph by Chris Smith
Finally, with a flip and a jump it swam off
into the current and was gone.

photograph by Ian Haskell
The
images are amazing, the experience was incredible. To be so
close to the otter, to feel such proximity to this wild and beautiful
animal was an honour. I think everyone was stunned at how close
we got, and delighted with all of their images.
The afternoon was spent doing some macro
work, photographing some of the seashores inhabitants, including
a very slippery eel.

Photograph by Chris Smith
On Sunday, once again everyone was up and
out before dawn, with a sense that yesterday could not be topped.
O yes it could! An hour in the company of two otter pups playing
and squabbling over fish on the beach, brought to them by their
attentive mother stunned everyone.
Carna really is an amazing island. Sea Eagles
swoop overhead, deer quietly graze round the cottage at night and
some incredible meetings with otters make it one of the finest wilderness
wildlife locations. Loch Visions are heading back there for two
weekends in 2012, with great expectations of enabling another group
of enthusiasts to share in these amazing experiences.
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