Subject: [Tweeters] Dippers and Crows
Date: Jan 20 12:44:13 2006
From: Edwin D. Lamb - edsplace2 at comcast.net


Several years back my wife and I followed the Cedar River
all the way up to the dam at the resevoir where the water
comes down over the spillway and the river takes off from
there. That is where we saw our first 'dipper'. We
watched this little grey bird hopping around the edge of the
fast moving stream on the rocks when he dived in and sort of
disappeared for a while. If you didn't know what it was you
sure wouldn't expect him to do that. Actually, the water
was clear enough you could see him some of the time while he
was down there. Then he would reappear on the rocks for a
while and after a bit go back in again. I recognized what
it was immediately having read about them but Phyllis was
absolutely amazed.

On the subject of crows, my grand father had a pet crow. He
had trained him to talk. That was when I was very small but
I can remember seeing him well enough. He didn't have much
of a vocabulary but could say several words distinctly. I
have heard that crows can be trained to talk pretty well if
their tounge is split. Is that a fact? Probably not a
favored practice with the animal rights group.

Ed Lamb in Bellevue, WA
edsplace2 at comcast.net