<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hans, dippers are well known to be occasional migrants, appearing in winter in places where they don’t breed. Not only latitudinal but altitudinal, perhaps the second more common. Birds of the World online doesn’t give any details, but it does mention estuaries as being winter habitats. I would say one on Puget Sound is very unusual, but I wouldn’t think it was impossible.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Dennis Paulson</div><div class="">Seattle<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 12, 2024, at 12:10 AM, Hans-Joachim Feddern via Tweeters <<a href="mailto:tweeters@u.washington.edu" class="">tweeters@u.washington.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">My wife and I decided to check out the new overlook below Pike Market today. We made it all the way down to the water and while on the floating dock across from the Seattle Aquarium, I noticed a starling size dark bird flying across the water and landing at the end of the float. Unfortunately it was immediately spooked by people before I had a good look at it. It tokk off again and flew low over the water towards the marina. It had a buzzy flight similar to a Spotted Sandpiper. It did look much like an American Dipper to me.<div class="">Has anybody observed dippers on saltwater?. Could this be a migrant from a more northern population? Our local birds are non-migratory to the best of my knowledge.<div class=""></div></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class="">Hans</div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br class=""><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><b style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" class=""><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(51,51,51)" class="">Hans Feddern</span></b><br style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" class=""><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" class="">Twin Lakes/Federal Way, WA</span><br style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" class=""><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,102);font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" class=""><a href="mailto:thefedderns@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">thefedderns@gmail.com</a></span><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div>
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