Birds and Nature

I found this pair of American Dippers over the week-end working from the ice ledge in an irrigation canal. Actually I knew there was a pair when the one bird I was watching was 'strafed' (ie, an attack from low-flying aircraft') by a second dipper and they both flew out to the nearby Arkansas River. This location has had one or a pair of American Dippers every winter for the past several years as well as in the summer. SeEtta

I recorded this pair of American Dippers that were building a nest on the mechanical arm that opens and closes the flood gate to a small dam in the Canon City, CO area. In this short clip the dippers are foraging and grooming at the bottom of the gate next to one where they were building their nest. SeEtta