Kennell Vale Dipper

Kennell Vale is a beautiful wooded valley with the River Kennell's white waters cutting and tumbling down through it passing many old and derelict Gunpowder mills along its banks,  Geographically it is protected from most wind directions and the sunlight filtering through the woods yesterday created a lovely spectacle.

I had returned hoping to capture display and possibly mating images of the rivers pair of Dipper,

After an hour or so of waiting at one of their favoured fishing locations with no show I moved off down stream and eventually found one of them working a different swim and it was very successful in catching several Nymphs in the shallows by head dipping without having to dive under the water,

With lunch taken care of it settled down to some relaxed preening on the waters edge but their was no sign of its mate

Other birds photographed at Kennell vale while waiting for the Dipper included the Nuthatch, Grey wagtail and Gold crest posted below :