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Originally Posted by upthesaukee
Even more interesting is to be able to watch these little puffs of feathers grow, learn to swim, learn to dive, and finally go by their "house" and find that Mom, Dad, and "kid(s)" have moved to the ocean.
Dave
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That experience is what keeps my wife and I going all over the lake every summer watching the chicks grow up.... because it is a journey to watch.....
My wife and kids got to watch flight training one afternoon...
We have watched fishing training....
We watch the nice fluffy feathers give way to the Adult feathers
We seen parents tired of carrying the young on their back, and fling them off....
All and all it is very rewarding.
However if you spent large amounts of time watching these lovely creatures, sometime you end up seeing things you wished you hadn't. Nothing is more sorrowful then listening to a pair of loons after they have lost a nest.... We went buy and one of the pair was on the nest, we went back buy about 20 mins later, after a couple of big boats had plowed into the cove, and found the next empty, and found the loons singing a very sorrowing tune...
Nothing like watching Nature, the good and the bad.....