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5 Nov 2007

the crow

I think I've already mentioned that I don't like shooting animals. Birds, especially. They just never do what you want them to.

On this occasion, it was a crow being quite upset by my presence; she obviously didn't like being photographed.

First she sat on the tree you can see in the background: on the very treetops with delicate branches hardly thick enough to support her weight. And there she sat crowing at me as if to tell me to bugger off.

Well, I did stay put, and finally she had enough of it:

Not exactly what I did hope for, but one has to content himself with what one gets.