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On Sunday, a half-dozen dippers were scouring the waters of Kokanee Creek below the spawning channel when one surfaced with a Kokanee salmon egg in its bill. It appears to be an unfertilized egg that washed downstream from the channel—fertilized eggs are orangish; unfertilized eggs turn a milky white. A second later, the egg had been eaten.<\/p>\n
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Dippers, the only aquatic songbird, prefer cold, fast-flowing, streams where they mainly eat invertebrates found on the stream bottom. On Sunday, a half-dozen dippers were scouring the waters of Kokanee Creek below the spawning channel when one surfaced with a … Continue reading