Tim writes: iiving in the Pennines I see lots of Dippers. But they seem to prefer shady, wooded rivers to ones on the open hillside. So I was really pleased to stumble across a pair that were nesting behind a small waterfall in full sunshine out on the open moorland. I sat quietly and the Dippers came and went with nesting material. You can see on this photograph that below the white bib is a band of chestnut/orange that differentiates British Dippers from their black-bellied Continental cousins.
Mark writes: and here is the Chinese and Tibetan subspecies of the same speces which Tim wrote about here back in March 2018.
