Show t l 1 N i 1 1 II J i Now it If there Is ever anything you rou need to know about Nature Just Juet get In tou touch h This can find out how many babies ants Save lave how skunks sleep nights and end why some Iome birds hop others othera walk Last week I asked for matlon mation on on n couple Of odd birds One eats under water and bobs up and down the other sings singe beautifully at our house every spring First to respond was Carl r Phillips genial custodian of ot East C Canyon nyon Dam Said he hel That water bird Is what we always called the bob bob snipe Im I'm not sure what It would be called iu lu the tho books And Im I'm pretty sure your rod red headed headed song bird Is la a barn wren Thanks Carl Next Nest came a letter from Roy I Lambert Utah State Representative tine tive eminent author and gentleman gentle man anon rancher from tram Kamas Dear Mac 1 1 am not an aD ornithologist but I am familiar with some of the common Utah bird birds The bird you saw In lI Hardscrabble could be none other than the water ouzel sometimes called dipper t I They are natives of at Utah and California mountain streams and i I 1 seem to be fewer as time passes You are rire r right ht about their way of feeding under water Their peculiar I liar Ilar antics ad as you so well des des- I f can an no more ore be explained than constant moving of a chickens chicken's head they head they just all doit do lo it I I hm not so certain about your other bird in question I think it Is the song sparrow Just the male has the red head They build In our spruce trees and some soma times timed in a hole in a post Lets continue to appreciate and protect this source of N turoa turee Inspiring expression Sincerely Sin Roy Lambert While I was out some one called call ed to discuss the the birds didn't leave a name namo hasn't called back I Floyd Williams the jovial custodian of funds at Coalville dropped In to say laY that one ODe bird birdIs Is the water ouzel and he think thinks the other othel may be a ahouse ahouse house finch I I Then came the clincher Dave I Johnson oil man and former I Coalville mayor brought In a abo bo book k A Field Guide to Western Birds by Roger Tory Peterson I Its It's a beautiful tome with a great many plates in lull tun color And It says Dipper An inhabitant in in- habitant of ot rushing mountain streams streams n a d dark rk slate colored ed l I bird shaped like like large chunky wren size of a large thrush Its bobbing motions slaty coloration and chunky shape are distinctive Song clear and ringing one note Dave isn't sure about the lit lit- little little tle De singer linger Says Say ho he wants want to see It It lies lie's sure lure welcome It Its It's nice to know there Is II such auch a thing as an ouzel Had HadI lIadI I been alone I wouldn't have believed It And now I cant can't remember remember remember re re- member to pronounce It ooze or I Roy Lamberts Lambert's problem I can solve t for r him The reason a chicken chic ken keeps moving its head is because be cause it can see out of only one j eye eo at a time Each eye is jealous j of the other Its It's afraid it will miss something ALoo sometimes I Ione Ione one cne eye cant can't believe what its it's ita I looking at and wants to prove it with the other one Simple hah haht Thanks everybody And keep keepin in touch Mac |