The Costs of Human Progress
In the 1980s, the the loons on this territory used a natural nest on an island, which is the loons’ preferred nest site. But also by the 1980s, New Hampshire’s […]
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LoonCam2 is Underway!
Our next contestants reside on a large lake with many loon neighbors, unlike our first pair who claimed the entire lake as their territory. This new pair has rejected the back […]
Mom’s Back!
After a second consecutive night of Dad babysitting the chicks on the nest, 38 hours after she left the nest on Thursday afternoon, Mom strolled in at 6:30 am, fresh as […]
We Have a Second Chick!
Around 5:30 am it was confirmed that the second egg hatched. We’re thinking the hatch occurred around midnight, which puts the two hatches about 24 hours apart. This is a […]
Where’s Mom?
We would normally have expected Mom to return to the nest sometime in the morning to greet her chicks and possibly take over nest duties for a while before the […]
One Egg Hatched; One Egg to Go
The first of the two eggs has hatched. Hard to say exactly when but it was right around midnight. So it hatched on either June 20 or 21. Let’s call […]
The Pip Watch Begins
You may notice a lot of talk about the “pip” and “pipping” if you follow the chat on YouTube. A pip is the first crack or pinhole in the egg […]
Do We Have a Pip?
Sure looks like one.
Running Aground
As a postlude to the Circle Dancing post, we got a report of a beached loon on our Loon Cam pond later in the day of the visiting loon. By […]
Circle Dancing
This morning we had a visiting loon, very close to the nest site. A third loon on a territory is always trouble, especially when the pair is on the nest or […]
