[mou] Possible St. Louis River Dipper

[Laura Erickson]

Yesterday afternoon and today I was birding with a couple from the state of 
Washington.  Tonight she mentioned that on their way into Duluth yesterday, 
going north on I-35, crossing a bridge (over the St. Louis River?) she 
looked out at the ice and saw a North American Dipper.  Being from the 
mountains in Washington, this didn't strike her as unusual until tonight 
when she was reading Kim Eckert's book.  But I've spent enough time with 
her to know she's got a keen eye and is quite good at 
recognition.  Unfortunately, because she didn't realize the unlikelihood of 
a dipper around here, she didn't pay close attention to exactly where they 
were when she saw it.  But we should certainly be keeping a close 
watch.  She said this bird was on the ice, and noted that she sees many 
dippers feeding from the ice in Washington.

Laura Erickson
Duluth, MN


Producer, "For the Birds" radio program
<http://www.lauraerickson.com/>


There is symbolic as well as actual beauty in the migration of 
birds.  There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of 
nature--the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the winter.

                                 --Rachel Carson