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Nesting Dipper

I do not normally photograph nesting birds for two reasons.

 

1.The risk of disturbance and therefore abandonment

2.The risk of disclosure to others.

 

However, while walking along the River Exe, I came across this Dipper’s nest, in a very public place and spent two fabulous hours watching, from a considerable distance, these birds. The weir was visited by a number of people during which the Dippers did not visit the nest. However, most people only spent a few minutes in the vicinity of the nest and the Dippers resumed feeding as soon as they had gone.

 

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Uploaded on April 30, 2017
Taken on April 29, 2017