Tim Melling – Dipper

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.

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