I saw a dipper!!!

[sunnydale]

Originally Posted by jaykay

I too would love to see a dipper and it would also be a first for me, keep trying to find them when they appear near us in Derbyshire, but somehow they find out I'm looking for them and disappear out of site until I return home, then someone else posts a note saying they've seen them!!!

jaykay, Lathkill Dale (as captaincarrot says) is your best bet. Walk down into the Dale from Over Haddon and head West along the river. It shouldn't be long before you spot them. Their song is quite distinctive, so you will probably hear them on the river before you see them!...

The RSPB: Dipper

They are also in Monsal Dale and Millers Dale.

If you need a guided tour, let me know! I'm happy to take anyone on a 'Dipper' walk!

Tracey

[leah2255]

WOW, so cool. I saw dipper several times either.

[big bill]

Congratulations on your sitings nice pics,we used to have a lot of Dippers on the River Nairn but for some unknown reason they seem to be non existant this year either that or I`m going blind

[daffy66]

lathkil dale, monsal dale around ashford in the water,both ends of bakewell and through chatsworth are all places iv seen dippers.i found a nest once under the sheffield-manchester railway line birdge at totley when i was fishing there couldnt see if there were eggs/chicks in it but i did remove some fishing line from it though.

[thebeard]

i saw one on the way back to my campsite after climbing snowdon, only hours after looking in by bird guide and thinking "i'd love to see a dipper". It was quite surreal because it was almost as if i'd imagined it, it flew by so quickly. definately a dipper though, nice birds.

I would love to see a Nuthatch, that would be a first for me

i've only seen one of these, and it was walking home the same route i'd done every day for nearly two years in nottingham. i thought it was a woodpecker at first so i stuck around and 'chased' it from tree to tree and finally got a good look at it. didn't get to look for long, they're very fast and it climbed up the tree out of view in no time!

[captaincarot]

Originally Posted by thebeard

i saw one on the way back to my campsite after climbing snowdon, only hours after looking in by bird guide and thinking "i'd love to see a dipper". It was quite surreal because it was almost as if i'd imagined it, it flew by so quickly. definately a dipper though, nice birds.



i've only seen one of these, and it was walking home the same route i'd done every day for nearly two years in nottingham. i thought it was a woodpecker at first so i stuck around and 'chased' it from tree to tree and finally got a good look at it. didn't get to look for long, they're very fast and it climbed up the tree out of view in no time!

i saw no end of them in clumber park, through the 1980's stuff a few peanuts and seeds on a tree stump and up they pop along with loads of other birds, tree creepers included,

will be there with bornwild this weekend hopefully finding them for her first viewing