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Water Ouzel: WATER OUZEL, or DIPPER, a songbird of the family Cinclidae, with two species each in the Old and New World. Water ouzels are very plump brown birds with or without a white breast and abdomen, and with short wings and tail. They resemble the wrens, to which they may be distantly related, but are aquatic and much larger, varying from about seven to nine inches in size. The plumage is very dense and provided with an undercoat of down.
Next below lies the zone of hardy plants and of a longer list of animals, such as the Canada jay, dusky grouse, several hawks and owls, the kinglets, water-ouzel, snow-birds and Zono-trichia finches, the bighorn sheep and a large variety of insects and snails. Below that, down among the pines and abundant shrubbery of the lower slopes and the foothills, one finds in summer the full measure of Rocky Mountain life.
Timber, brick, gravel and water have been combined to make this Japanese-style garden. The overall design consists of a series of regular geometric shapes in varying colors and textures. Water is used in three ways to produce different textures: there is still water, rippling water and spouting water. Plants are kept to a minimum. |
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