Questions

Good morning, all. I was on vacation the week of July 9, and scrmbling to catch up, last week, so I've had very little time to check in on the loon cam, and the status of the nest.

I am curious if folks have been witnessing the adults coming and going from the nest? If so, can you share the dates and tiomes?The best times to see this would be early morning (between 6-8 am) and evening (6-8 pm). This is the most common times when the adults will switch incubation duties.

If previous patterns hold up, the male will incubate during the day, and the female at night.

Lee

A Nest!

All - given all the earlier nest visits by loons, copulation, etc., and yet still another year without a nest on the loon cam, I began to think pretty hard that we were missing something. That hunch led me to ask one of our staff members to do an on site survey, yesterday, and guess what - they found a nest.

The nest is located about 15 feet to the left of the historical nest location we have been monitoring. The nest has two eggs, and an unbanded pair are on territory.

Unfortunately, the camera can't see the nest, although we have adjusted it, so hopefully we can see activity when loons come and go. Moving the camera and the stand would risk too much nest disturbance, so we'll have to be satisfied with what we have.

One other item of interest was we observed the original banded male on the pond. It was on the other side, well away from the nest area, and it took flight, and likely flew to another water body.

We are sorry the sound isn't working, and are doing everything we know to get it fixed. We may make a site visit later this week, but if our suspicion is correct, and there is a problem with our equipment near the nest, we won't be able to do anything more.

Hope everyone had a great 4th of July!

Lee