Having spent a lot of time in the west and loving to watch American dippers along mountain streams, I always think of the Louisiana waterthrush as the eastern "dipper". Though not taxonomically related, the Louisiana waterthrush occupies a similar niche, living and feeding along our eastern woodland streams and ponds. It also has the habit of bobbing, not quite the same motion as the Am. dipper, but still a bobbing bird found along streams. This morning while doing a breeding bird survey in Wooster Memorial Park (Wayne Co.), I came across a family of Louisiana waterthrushes along a pond in the woods. The male was chipping and singing along a nearby stream, while the female (I assume) was working the surface of the pond, overgrown with duckweed, looking for food for the young. The two full-grown young were each sitting on a branch 4-6ft above the edge of the pond. Both still had a few remnants of down sticking up. Both were giving an occasional call note, while waiting for mom to show up with the food. I watched this family for five minutes or so. A wonderful slice of nature on a wet morning in the woods. Randy Rowe, Wooster ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]