The Big and Little Dippers are two groups of stars that are shaped like dippers, or cups with long handles. |
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What most people don't know, however, is that the Big and Little Dippers are not even constellations. |
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They will create a small glow-in-the-dark poster of the Big and Little Dippers or a constellation of their choice. |
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Both the Big and Little Dippers are inextricably linked in mythology. |
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The Big and Little Dippers are part of the Big and Little Bears. |
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Two of the most famous asterisms in astronomy, the Big and Little Dippers hover above the pine trees at Carranza Field in the New Jersey Wharton State Forest. |
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Dippers are found in suitable freshwater habitats in the highlands of the Americas, Europe and Asia. |
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Dippers are also sometimes hunted or otherwise persecuted by humans for various reasons. |
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At the equator, we would observe the Little and Big Dippers close to the horizon. |
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Dippers are members of the genus Cinclus in the bird family Cinclidae, named for their bobbing or dipping movements. |
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Nesbitt is to star in a comedy drama for ITV called Big Dippers which centres on a couple of small-time criminals forever on the look-out for a quick money making scam. |
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Market growth is being fuelled by hand-held snacks, including wedges, baps, baguettes, rolls, pasta salads and dippers. |
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The slaves made dippers out of gourds and the water in the gourd dipper was cooler than the water in the glass dipper. |
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Using paint buckets and dippers, men and women spent a full hour hurling black-tinted white paint at doors and windows. |
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You may also see some of Zagori's eight species of woodpecker, as well as wallcreepers, dippers, rock thrush, golden oriole, snow finch. |
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While I'm on a rollercoaster tip I think I'll bore you with tales of riding one of the greatest wooden big dippers in the world. |
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Swallows were chasing insects over the water and I watched dippers and grey wagtails feeding their young. |
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Isn't it time some of the big-time dippers spent some time in the slammer as well? |
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Joe likes pizzas, sausage rolls, pork pies, chicken and mushroom slices, chicken dippers and chocolate cake. |
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Wildlife photographer Harold Hems records an unusually sited nest under a waterfall in a position usually associated with dippers. |
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No farmer should employ dippers unless they hold an appropriate licence. |
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In fall and winter, look for bald eagles, American dippers, mergansers, red-shafted Northern flickers, red-tailed hawks, and Townsend's solitaires. |
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I also spotted a male kingfisher, herons and several dippers. |
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River chats, dippers, flycatcher, isibias, wall creepers, bulbuls, forktales, ibisbills are a few of the almost 400 species of birds available around the basin. |
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Gourds also provide a wide range of dippers, cups, and spoons. |
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In the Atlas Mountains dippers are claimed to have aphrodisiacal properties. |
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Serve fondue immediately with assorted fruit, cake and cookie dippers, or let cool, cover with plastic wrap, and store in refrigerator. |
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Young dippers usually become independent of their parents within a couple of weeks of leaving the nest. |
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Surround it with bell pepper strips, raw broccoli, baked tortilla chips, or other dippers. |
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It is also the home of red kites, buzzards, dippers, peregrine falcons and ravens, with seasonal visits from ring ouzels and redstarts. |
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Linear breeding territories are established by pairs of dippers along suitable rivers, and maintained against incursion by other dippers. |
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Skinny dippers had emerged from the water to find their socks and undies had been pinched. |
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It is home to wildlife including water voles, salmon, otters, kingfishers, dippers, sand martins, dragonflies, eels and lamprey. |
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Individuals who exhibit a diminished nocturnal decline in blood pressure have been reported to have more cardiovascular end organ damage than dippers. |
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