An unusual songbird, the dipper is a bird of the western cordillera that tirelessly forages in the cold waters of the fast moving creeks that flow into the Lake. It eats aquatic insect larvae, fish eggs, and even fry. I see it peer into the stream; I see it dive and walk along the bottom; I see it surface again. Yet, I only rarely spot it catch anything. The bird consumes its captured food so quickly, that I usually miss the action.
Dippers are a favourite topic of this blog. Some of the previous postings are:
• Dipper dipping close views of a dipper dipping;
• Dipper comestible dipper about to consume an unfertilized Kokanee egg;
• Iconoclastic dipper dipper capturing a small fish in the Lake;
• Best bird last dipper with a (?) larva;
• Dipper’s rainbow dipper trying to eat the fry of a Rainbow Trout;
• Dipper’s nest dipper’s nest (on the same creek).
Today, I watched a dipper find and consume the egg of a Kokanee salmon. First it was seen scanning the bottom of the creek for anything edible. 
It dove and surfaced with a small sphere in its bill: an egg. The transparency of the sphere suggests that this is the fertilized egg of a Kokanee. If it had been unfertilized, it would have appeared milky white.
I’m always looking for these creatures while by the water, and love their vigorous seeming hydrophilia. Erik and I watched one at Kokanee sifting relentlessly, Wagnerianly, through the stream, water flying left, right, left, right. It had us falling into fits of laughter.