Sorry guys.....I do admit I rushed that a bit......getting ready to take Mother out for a meal......Mothers Day and all that, ya know.
Anyways....yeah, spot on DV8. Thanks for that.
For the benefit of the OP the method is basically this...
Remove the 'crow' by covering it with clouds...
The problem with that is once removed you then have no crow to move....so....we need to make a copy of it first.
Duplicate the 'crow' (the whole layer) and then cut it out of that layer......its all you need.
Working on a duplicate means you still have the original on which you can then cover the 'crow' with clouds....it doesn't matter if we lose the 'crow' at this stage because we already have it from the duplicate.
So the next step is then to remove the 'crow' from the original.....but....if we don't turn off the duplicate crow then we wont be able to see what we are doing ....it will essentially look the same.....so we turn off the duplicate 'crow' for the time being while we sort out covering the original.......with 'Content Aware'....(Not Contentent Aware as previously stated....and that was BEFORE a drink!)
Once we have the 'crow' removed from the original image (IOW covered with clouds) then we can turn on the duplicate crow, select it, and move it to wherever we want.
With a blending mode change and maybe a little masking the crow should blend into the clouds of the original image.
That was the thinking behind it.
Regards.
MrTom.