I have to say that I am somewhat disappointed with the the poor quality of this video footage. It was filmed in HD and looked good before it was uploaded to "Vimeo",  (the video hosting site). It's not a free service so I need to discover why it is such poor quality. If you just view it in this window, it is not too bad but open it in a large, full screen view and the quality is impaired! To see it larger without affecting it too much, just click on "cmd +"  to increase the size of the browser window to view it larger. Then when you have finished, reduce the size of the browser window again by pressing "cmd -".

 The video shows one of a pair of birds feeding in typical fashion.  Watch carefully and you can actually see the bird under the water and how it uses it's wings to propel it's self. It's quite interesting to see how it swims against the current. The force of the water passing over it forces the bird nearer to the bottom of the stream.  They are looking for the small larva of caddis and mayfly but will eat small snails and dragonfly larva and even small, but very small fish. Dippers are early breeders and they time their breeding to coincide with the best time for their prey. The more rich in water-life a watercourse is, then the earlier in the season Dippers will breed.