Crow with Crab Apple

On an overcast winter afternoon in southwest Montana, I saw a flock of Crows eating in a crab apple tree.  This tree was in someones front yard in town. 
 
The Story:
 
About a month earlier, I saw the flock of Crows in this tree.  I knew it was a great photo opportunity, but I didn't have my camera with me.  The Crows weren't around the next day when I went back with my camera, so I decided to keep my camera with a 600mm telephoto lens in my car in case I saw them again.  Two weeks later, I saw a flock of about 50, eating crab apples in a different tree, but the light was bad and I couldn't get in position for a good photograph.  I doubted that I would get a chance to photograph them eating berries.
 
On February 1, I saw the flock in the exact same tree that they were in a month earlier.  This time I had my camera and the bright overcast light was perfect.  There was a thin white stratus cloud cover that blanketed the entire sky.  The white stratus clouds provided the white background that would contrast with the black crow at the top of the tree.  The challenge  was that I could only photograph birds on the top of the tree so I could isolate the black Crow against the white sky.  This was difficult because the Crows had picked the top branches pretty clean a month earlier. 
 
I focused my telephoto lens on this branch because it had a few berries left.  I watched and hoped a Crow would land on it and pick a berry.  A Crow did land and ate a few, but he was facing me.  I needed a side profile shot to realize my vision.  Finally,  the first Crow flew off and a second Crow landed on the branch.  Only this time, I had a side profile view of him.  He picked a berry, and looked back at some other Crows that were watching from a neighboring Cottonwood tree.  As the Crow displayed his prize, I now had the  perfect profile shot I had hoped to capture.  Click!