Dipper scoffs eggs

A dipper sat on the border ice of a creek. It used the ice as a platform to dive for eggs of a Kokanee salmon. 

The dipper’s forays were surprisingly successful. The dipper acquired a Kokanee egg on perhaps a third to a half of its dives. It brought the egg back to the ice shelf and devoured it there. The golden colour of the egg indicates that it has been fertilized; this is a Kokanee that will not swim in the Lake.

What was particularly interesting was that the dipper would often retrieve a string of eggs from the base of the creek, but would then seem to initially deposit them on the ice.

It would then retrieve them individually and eat them one by one.

My favourite shot was of an apparently botched retrieval where the egg went flying though the air.