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Old 12-08-2015, 08:57 AM   #2
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Default Where are the parents?

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Originally Posted by Greene's Basin Girl View Post
We still have a loon chick in Green's Basin. The other chick left long ago. It is getting late in the season. The Loon Preservation Committee said we shouldn't worry because it has been so unseasonably warm. As long as it leaves while there is still open water to take flight everything will be alright. I am wondering if anyone else is still seeing chick on the lake??? I remember one year when a number of loons died on the ice in the broads because they didn't have enough open water to take flight.
I have friends on another lake that relayed a story of another situation of a loon chick not flying off. The parents seemed to hang with the chick, taking off and over flying the lake, trying to get the chick to fly. They too were worried as the lake is a smaller lake, and ice was forming around the edge. They went home one weekend, and all were there. Came back the next weekend, and all were gone. All this played out just before Christmas, a few years back.

Is it usual for the parents to leave the chicks?
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