Date: 3/2/26 12:29 am From: Hans-Joachim Feddern via Tweeters <tweeters...> Subject: [Tweeters] American Dipper
After I "dipped" on American Dipper earlier this year at Tumwater Falls, I managed to find one today at South Prairie Creek. You can park at Veterans Park and walk over to the former railroad bridge, now used for the Foothill Trail. You can normally find a dipper under the bridge and they likely nest under it, but today people were skipping rocks there. I did find the Dipper on the other side upstream sitting on a rock. They actually blend in quite well. Looking for a Dipper, you can tell if they are around by their droppings on rocks. I watched this bird for a while . It would walk under water, only to pop up again like a cork and drift downstream like one. Every so often it would dive again. Another nice find was a pair of American Kestrels on the powerline wire across from the Foothill Trail parking lot in East Puyallup.
Good Birding !
Hans -- *Hans Feddern* Twin Lakes/Federal Way, WA <thefedderns...>
