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Nature Notes From Crater Lake

Volume 7, No. 3, September 1934

 

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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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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