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This weekend I was in Devon, up on Exmoor near Tarr Steps. When you're bird aware you engage all your senses. Sight, sound, scent and a spacial awareness.

You get familiar with certain terrains and you start to get the feeling that somehing special is about to happen. A 6th sense kicks in. It's a sort of magical feeling. That you might see a 'so and so' and this is what happend on Sunday.

We were walking alongside the River Barle and the water got more shallow as it rounded a bend. It fell into my mind that this is exactly the sort of place where we might see a Dipper and then suddenly there he was standing on a rock. 

Black body, broad white chest, bobbing and dipping up and down looking at the water intently. We watched him for a good few minutes until he was startled by a dog on the bank and flew off. He actually walks under water looking for lunch.

This 6th sense feels so ancient, so life affirming, like we would have trained ourselves in this in order to survive.

I've loved Dippers since I first saw them as a child in the Yorkshire Dales. They signify wild country, mountain streams, fresh air, deliciously quiet spots. Exactly the kind of place to recharge and reconnect to the deeper earth rhytyms.

Here's a little video clip