Nature Notes From Crater Lake
Volume 7, No. 3, September 1934
A Water Ouzel Inside the Rim
By Berry Campbell, Ranger-Naturalist
The Water Ouzel (Cinclus mexicanus)
is fairly common in the streams which flow off the sides of the old Mt.
Mazama. It was the writers good fortune to discover a bird of this
species at the shore of the lake at the foot of Dyar Rock late in the
afternoon of July 25, 1934. I was traveling along the shore by rowboat,
and saw the bird at the foot of one of the numerous spring-fed streams
which cascade into the lake in that vicinity. This species has a
predilection for water falls and the small trickle down the cliff walls
seems to have been the attraction. I rowed up in the boat to get a
better view of it and it flew around the next point. Sure enough, when I
followed it around the point, I found that it had settled on a rock at
the next waterfall, and there it stood, bobbing up and down, watching me
as I rowed slowly off down the lake.