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Dipper - Cinclus Cinclus
aka Water Ouzel
Dippers are members of the genus Cinclus in the bird family Cinclidae, named for their bobbing or dipping movements. They are unique among passerines for their ability to dive and swim underwater.
They have a characteristic bobbing motion when perched beside the water, giving them their name. While under water, they are covered by a thin, silvery film of air, due to small bubbles being trapped on the surface of the plumage.
Dippers are found in suitable freshwater habitats in the highlands of the Americas, Europe and Asia. In Africa they are only found in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco. They inhabit the banks of fast-moving upland rivers with cold, clear waters, though, outside the breeding season, they may visit lake shores and sea coasts.
The high haemoglobin concentration in their blood gives them a capacity to store oxygen greater than that of other birds, allowing them to remain underwater for thirty seconds or more, whilst their basal metabolic rate is approximately one-third slower than typical terrestrial passerines of similar mass. One small population wintering at a hot spring in Suntar-Khayata Mountains of Siberia feeds underwater when air temperatures drop below −55 °C (−67 °F).
Dippers are completely dependent on fast-flowing rivers with clear water, accessible food and secure nest-sites. They may be threatened by anything that affects these needs such as water pollution, acidification and turbidity caused by erosion. River regulation through the creation of dams and reservoirs, as well as channelization, can degrade and destroy dipper habitat.
Dippers are also sometimes hunted or otherwise persecuted by humans for various reasons. The Cyprus race of the white-throated dipper is extinct. In the Atlas Mountains dippers are claimed to have aphrodisiacal properties. In parts of Scotland and Germany, until the beginning of the 20th century, bounties were paid for killing dippers because of a misguided perception that they were detrimental to fish stocks through predation on the eggs and fry of salmonids.
Population:
UK breeding:
6,200-18,700 pairs
Taken in the Meon Valley,Hampshire
The hill on the skyline is known as Old Winchester Hill.
Best seen LARGE
This reservoir is situated at the head of the Hodder valley in the Forest of Bowland, Lancashire, England (historically in the West Riding of Yorkshire until 1974). It provides water mainly for Blackpool and the Fylde coast. The reservoir has a fly-fishing club which is very popular in the summer months and a small cafe which is popular with walkers.
Still working through my Canada photographs its taking longer due to Mary and I arriving back home with really heavy colds . If we sit still for a moment sleep quickly overtakes us . Still I was cheered by the decision of the Supreme Court a reminder in Lady Hales eloquent judgement that the foundation of democracy is the rule of law . It is Parliament not the executive that is sovereign in Britain . We removed the head of Charles 1st who tried to overrule Parliament not that I am advocating that for Boris. A few days in the stocks with a placard saying “ I have been a silly boy “ would suffice .
This is a shot of a Lapwing taken at the North Cave wetlands A common bird but I do no not think I have posted one before
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Chicken feet are perhaps visually unappealing but they are an incredibly rich source of collagen and are a great addition to your stocks and bone broths. Honor the animal's sacrifice by using the whole carcass.
I came across this Victorian memorial while taking a bijou amble through the Rock Cemetary.
Bleach bypass in camera filter, LUMIX S5 ll and the 85mm f1.8
Spring is on the way. Some trees, like the bauhenia are beginning to burst into pale pink. These stocks filled the house with their wonderful fragrance until yesterday when they started to stink unpleasantly. Compost now, isn't nature wonderful. Here I have stuck them between two pages, or textures if you will. One is by Leschick here
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and the other is called 'shoegazing' and is by NKL
My, what a lovely perfume they have ! I believe the main ones are doubles, while the ones at the left are single Stocks. All have a nice perfume.
Kentish flats offshore wind farm.....with a very faint hint of the London Array in the distance.....please squint!
Skippy Stocks Up unsettled weather and the squirrel's and birds came by to stock up on bird seed, they were right, now raining hard, shot in North Carolina.
A sunny afternoon stroll in my garden. This strong rapidly growing tomato transplant is enveloping a purple stocks plant.
This Hunchback Bee Fly, part of the Scaly Bee Fly family, is an important pollinator and a nest parasite for Solitary Wasps... It locates the Solitary Wasp nest and lays its own eggs there, and the Solitary Wasp stocks the nest with food thinking it is providing for its own larva...
No its not the lock, stock and barrel but a different lock and stocks. Lend me your head and see how comfortable you are bent over all night with thy head in the stocks. Fort Gibson, OK Old stockade
Stocks Reservoir on a lovely day, I had to hold the camera up over the wall and hope all was in focus.
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A set of stocks, dated from the 18th century, on Chapel-en-le-Frith marketplace in the Peak Distrct.
Day 159
Went on a trip to Hampshire today to see a man about a car. Stopped at Stow on the Wold on the way home. Long day!
shot taken of the stencils of my grandaughter Margo's old bedroom, but with walls coming down and the remaining stud work casting very strong shadow onto the wall of her previous playroom, I very much felt from her reactions that I was documenting her highway through to her new life in another house....for me at least a rather emotional journey.
The stocks date from 1935 when the adjacent tree was planted by the Parish Council to replace the Constable Wick tree which had stood there since around 1640.
The Swift had appeared in the Square about ten minutes before the photo was taken.
It's cold, very wet and grey here today; I bought some scented stocks on my way home this morning to cheer the spirits! :-)
At Walsall Arboretum. These stocks used to be in Walsall high street then were moved to the Arboretum in 1904.