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White-throated Dipper (1 Viewer)

linkahwai

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Nyfors in Tyreso Municipality of Sweden is the paradise for white-throated dipper. I spotted at least 5 of them in such a small area of unfrozen waterfall. It was a joy to watch them perching on the rock, singing and chasing each other. The most interesting is to watch them searching for food by submerging into the fast-flowing water from one site and reappear in another site. One of the dipper doing this at the same site repeatedly and continuously for more than 20 minutes! Due to the sunny weather and harsh light condition, it is difficult to get a good photograph with even exposure, luckily some of the photos are still satisfactory.

For detail, see my blog: http://kwbirding.blogspot.com/
 

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Nyfors in Tyreso Municipality of Sweden is the paradise for white-throated dipper. I spotted at least 5 of them in such a small area of unfrozen waterfall. It was a joy to watch them perching on the rock, singing and chasing each other. The most interesting is to watch them searching for food by submerging into the fast-flowing water from one site and reappear in another site. One of the dipper doing this at the same site repeatedly and continuously for more than 20 minutes! Due to the sunny weather and harsh light condition, it is difficult to get a good photograph with even exposure, luckily some of the photos are still satisfactory.

For detail, see my blog: http://kwbirding.blogspot.com/

They are some brilliant pictures, thanks very much for sharing them.;)
 
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Dippers are really unique and very interesting to observe while they are foraging! From your pictures, it looks as if the sun was nice and bright that day...did you catch any glint from the nictitating membrane? I'll never forget the first time I saw that and thought it was so odd that I had to go do some digging in books to figure out just what was going on.
 
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