{"id":9017,"date":"2013-11-03T18:14:03","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T02:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=9017"},"modified":"2013-11-03T19:09:43","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T03:09:43","slug":"dipper-gets-egg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=9017","title":{"rendered":"Dipper gets egg"},"content":{"rendered":"

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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.<\/p>\n

Dippers are a favourite topic of this blog. Some of the previous postings are:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Dipper\u00a0dipping<\/a>\u00a0 close views of a dipper dipping;
\n\u2022 Dipper comestible<\/a>\u00a0 dipper about to consume an unfertilized Kokanee egg;
\n\u2022 Iconoclastic dipper<\/a>\u00a0 dipper capturing a small fish in the Lake;
\n\u2022 Best bird\u00a0last<\/a>\u00a0 dipper with a (?) larva;
\n\u2022 Dipper’s rainbow<\/a>\u00a0 dipper trying to eat the fry of a Rainbow Trout;
\n<\/a>\u2022\u00a0Dipper’s nest<\/a>\u00a0 dipper’s nest (on the same creek).
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Today, I watched a dipper find and consume the egg of a Kokanee salmon<\/a>. First it was seen scanning the bottom of the creek for anything edible.\u00a0\"\"<\/p>\n

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<\/a>, it would have appeared milky white.
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