RAINBOW FALLS 



WHEN the sun strikes the. spray and mist at the proper 

 angle, a beautiful rainbow is painted on the face of the 

 falls. At the time of the author s visit to this idyllic 

 spot a pair of water-ousels had chosen it for a summer resi- 

 dence. They Jlew from the rocks below to the top of the 

 falls, hugging close to the rushing torrent. In returning, they 

 darted in one swift plunge from the top to the bottom, alighting 

 on the rocks below. With the utmost abandon they dived into 

 the seething waters at the foot of the falls, usually emerging with 

 a slug or beetle in their bills for the nestlings. Shod with tall 

 rubber boots, the writer waded close up to the foot of the falls 

 in search of the dipper s nest, which was set in a cleft of the 

 rocks a few inches above the water, in the little shadowed cavern 

 at the left of the stream. The pointed rock wrapped in mist, 

 almost in the line of the plunging tide, was a favorite perch 

 for the dippers. 



