An ouzel dipped in alarm at seeing me, then shot past to the rim of a falls. Who would credit this plumbeous slug as a bird, so fishlike at times, so versatile in making water work for itself? One might ask whether dipper, in all its shades and ways, is more or less believable than Sasquatch. Or swifts, scything the sky with all the elegance of an ouzel underwater, making nonsense of gravity itself.
