Residence

The River Greta begins to calm and subside, her pace does not falter, but the raging depth has lowered and revealed the gritty banks again – and with that the resident pair of Goosanders ambling in the shallows or making their way hastily cross-current – but perhaps most enthralling of all a Dipper has taken up feeding from the gray shale on the far side of the river, just below the pencil museum car-park; at first nothing more than a vivid white patch against the mottled backdrop, it is soon easy to recognize by it’s regular bobbing motion and of course submerging into the water, like that of a grebe, to feed –

River Greta, Keswick, Cumbria 22/11/06