Dippers have to be one of my favourite birds to photograph. In this short film I head to a spot near to where I know the Dippers are nesting and they are very busy feeding their new brood of chicks.
Clutches are normally started between March and May. Dippers breeding at good quality sites may start as early a February.
The eggs are incubated by the female for about 16 days, beginning with the last egg, meaning that the brood hatches synchronously. The young are brooded by the female until they are 12-13 days old, but both parents feed the young.
The young fledge at 20-24 days but are fed for a further week, becoming fully independent 11-18 days after leaving the nest. During this time the nest site may be used by the family to roost in.
A second clutch will be started about 10 days after the fledging of the first one. The age of first breeding is one year, though males sometimes take longer. Join me to see what images we achieve and whether I manage to film this amazing aquatic bird.
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