Another bird I love among the Alps is the dipper or water ouzel.
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The bluebird was in the Yosemite also, and the water-ouzel haunted the lucid waters.
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Closer inspection showed that the bird was a grey-winged ouzel.
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Who can hear the wild song of the ouzel and not feel an answering thrill?
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He is otherwise called the rose-coloured ouzel or starling.'
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But I have never seen a water-ouzel alive.
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I thought I guessed what black ouzel 'twas!
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The mellow ouzel fluting in the elm.
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The cock ouzel remained for fully five minutes with one eye on me, and then flew off.
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ON November 29th I saw a ring ouzel as it skittered downstream along the surface of a fast-flowing upland stream.
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Did not Stamp point out to him a water-ouzel, with impudently jerking tail, dipping and wading in the shallows of the stream?
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How beautiful is the adventure which has led our dipper or water-ouzel- abirdallied to the wrens-totry walking and flying under water!
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Shakespeare, in one of his songs, alludes to the blackbird as the ouzel-cock; indeed, he puts quite a flock of birds in this song:-
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I have never yet met ducks in any of the lakes of this kind, but the ouzel is never wanting where the feeding-streams are perennial.
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But the woods seemed deserted and empty; only those cheerful, impudent little bundles of feathers, the snowbirds, and an occasional, darting water-ouzel along the creeks.
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Looks like a bit of the rock itself, with moss all about it, and Gloria understood that it was her water-ouzel he was talking about.