DIPPERS AGAIN

   There is a small river than runs almost at the bottom of the cottage garden and its always worthwhile sitting here for a while beneath the trees as you often see Dippers,Wagtails and occasionally Kingfishers. The trees were coming out into leaf so the light underneath them was a bit dark but I was lucky on several occasions to get some pictures of the Dippers. This patch of the river must have been on the border between two Dipper territories as I saw two birds regularly chasing each other and fighting whilst shouting at each other loudly. I don't know how much river each territory consists of but I do know that one pair of birds was nesting under a bridge about 1 mile downstream which you could reach by walking alongside the river on a footpath that has been restored in the last year after being swept away in floods up here in 2009.