Subject: Re. Dippers (& cormorants)
Date: Feb 14 11:02:15 1996
From: Jack Bowling - jcbowling at mindlink.bc.ca


Janet said -

>An addition to the delineation of range and elevation of American Dippers --
>Yesterday I found a dipper busy feeding in the river at Dosewallips State
>Park. Charming as ever! I saw a bird in the very same place last December.
>Not sure of the elevation, but it can't be much over 1 ft above sea level.

And I recently was apprised of some new dipper info. A spelunker
related just the other day that he has seen dippers nesting to the
limit of the photic zone in deep caves along the Alaska Panhandle.
Other species noted in caves along the shores of the Northeast Pacific
were: thrushes; Pigeon Guillemots; puffins; cormorants; Winter Wrens;
and Rufous Hummingbirds.

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>P.S. Anyone ever notice what pretty blue eyes some cormorants have?

Yes. Got very close to a sick Double-crested out on the mud flats of
Boundary Bay when I was a teenager. The eyes were an unearthly glowing
green-blue. Very unsettling and beautiful at the same time.

- Jack


Jack Bowling
Prince George, BC
CANADA
jcbowling at mindlink.bc.ca