Crow textures

The coast between Far Arnside and Park Point is my favourite place at sunset at the moment.  The sun has moved further north now, and is no long setting over Humphrey Head, but low light still picks out the layering of Morecambe Bay, the channels and the flats.  It was a cold, breezy day that rippled and stippled the brackish water as it flowed out of the Bay into the Irish Sea.  But for a group of 4 crows, there were few birds visible.   

The carrion crows here are well adapted to a coastal life, finding plentiful food on the draining mudflats.  They were flighting back and forth across the channel, and I waited for this one to gradually step his way to the channel edge.  There's a view of the crow in flight here.

These portrait format layered photographs don't work well on the new format Blipfoto site, at least not on the iPad.  But I'm blipping it anyway.  Go large to see the crow to best effect (is it still possible to go large?).

This is back blipped.  It's another sign of the lengthening days that there wasn't time to post this last night between coming home and going out for the evening to see elfin Cara Dillon perform in Kendal.  Her voice was exquisite and the musicianship of Sam Lakeman and Barry Kerr superb.