Report a Loon Nest in the Sunapee Region

Please use this form to report a loon nest in the Sunapee Region.

If the nest is still ongoing at the time that you submit this report, please be sure to follow up with our Sunapee Region biologist at sunapee@loon.org if anything changes with the nest (such as chicks hatching or the nest failing), and please be in touch if you are concerned about potential threats to the nest. Thank you!

Nest Form—Sunapee Region

Please use this form to report a loon nest, ideally on the day that you first notice the nest. We understand that you may not know the answers to all of the questions below—that's okay! Please skip any questions that you need to. Please do not try to closely approach active loon nests to try to answer the questions on this form.

Name(Required)

First Last

Lake

Territory

Grafton Pond has three loon monitoring territories. Please select the territory that you are submitting observations from.

Territory

Mascoma Lake has two loon monitoring territories. Please refer to the map above and select the territory that you are submitting observations from.

Territory

Sunapee Lake has four loon monitoring territories. Please refer to the map above and select the territory you are submitting observations from.

Territory

Little Sunapee Lake has two loon monitoring territories. Please refer to the map above and select the territory you are submitting observations from.

Attempt Number(Required)

Loons may nest more than once. To the best of your knowledge, which nest attempt is this for your loons this year?

Did you see the nest?(Required)

Often, volunteers are able to find loon nests. Sometimes, the nest is not seen, and we only know there was one because the loons emerge with chicks. If you saw the nest, please enter 'Yes'. If you only know about the nest because your loons have chicks, enter 'No'.

Nest Site

Where is the nest located?

Nest Location

Please describe where on the lake the nest is, using specific place names if possible (cove names, island names, etc.).

If you are able, please provide coordinates for the nest estimated on Google Earth.

If you are not able to do this, that's okay—just leave this field blank.

Please describe the human activity level at this nest site.

Are the loons still nesting, or has the nest finished?(Required)

Number of chicks hatched

How many chicks hatched from the nest?

Nest start date

When did you first see the nest?

Nest finish date

To the best of your knowledge, when did the nest hatch or fail?

Suspected cause of nest failure

What do you think caused the nest to fail?

Please provide any information that you have about what happened in the days leading up to the nest failure.

If you selected a failure cause above, please explain what caused you to suspect that failure cause.

Please provide any additional information that you think we should know about this nest.

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Report a Loon Nest in the Sunapee Region

Nest Form—Sunapee Region

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