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Originally Posted by ApS
Your photos are of the "Threat Pose" in its Autumn (molt) colors.
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Exactly correct.. I took this picture last year. I sent it along with about 20 other images of an interaction between 3 Loons off LSP. I asked them if this picture (below) was a mating dance of some sort and she expalined that what I had photographed in the entire series of pictures I sent was a confrontation with a male trying to "steal" another males female.
She walked me through all of the images I sent.. fascinating subject . This picture I'm posting is the grand finale of the confrontation.
She explained that the tail standing was actually thr Loons showing how big they are. and the smaller loon will generally leave.
She also said that sometimes they get into a terrible fight that may end in one of the loons dead or very badly hurt.
