Dippers.

Very industrious and wary little bird, no shortage of food for the chicks with both parents returing to the nest with a beak full of lavre and flys.The nest is built in the waterfall and each bird had to fly through a deluge of water to get to it.Hopefully when its drier a shot of the chicks could be on.

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Excellent shots Carlton, bonus with a beak full of lavae. Did you use fill flash of somesort here?
Good captures of one of my favourite birds.
Regards Alan.

1st one looks a little over exposed to me the breast feathers are all blown out, 2nd one is nice.

Try doing a "save as" instead of save for web as it keeps your exif data intact

I love these guys, nice shots of them, Carlton!

Great shots Carlton. We have dippers here too, great birds to watch. No better place for a nest heh? What could possibly bother it, a carp?

These are the guys that will walk under water, right...We have a bird here called a dipper and you can watch him sometimes walk ont he creek bed fully submerged. I think its the same bird at least...

Have never seen them up close like this though!

@Superdiver, yes, they're similar if not the same species. Quite a shy bird too so these are good catches. Shame about the blown feathers in shot one though; maybe the fill flash was a bit too high?