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Old 10-13-2013, 10:39 AM   #1
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Smile Show Off Loon on the Ossipee's

Saw this loon showing off on Berry Bay last week.

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Old 10-13-2013, 01:17 PM   #2
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Great picture - they're beautiful birds!
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Old 10-17-2013, 07:02 PM   #3
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We live in Ossipee and have beautiful loons at our pond down the road. As of last week, they were still there. This was the first year I have seen them there. The last three years. Nothing. Beautiful birds....
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Smile ...but there's nothing like seeing the loon in person...

Your photos are of the "Threat Pose" in its Autumn (molt) colors.

Later on I stumbled on a greeting card with a "Summer Loon" taking that pose
--as seen from the back.

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A few years ago, I tried to capture that image from the front, with molten glass on a metal switch plate cover (using cloisonné / enameling).

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Old 11-27-2013, 06:10 PM   #5
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Your photos are of the "Threat Pose" in its Autumn (molt) colors.
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.

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Old 09-21-2014, 07:37 PM   #6
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Unhappy Threats Aren't Always in the Air...

After Labor Day last season, I sailed up to six Loons off Rattlesnake Island and started a 15-minute video. (Hopefully to record their sometimes-comical behavior ).

The following is a short, 26-second section of that video. Pardon the video's "seasick" motions—it's in telephoto mode, and hard to hold steady—especially while afloat.

One Loon gave the "threat" pose (extreme left in the video) but it didn't dawn on me to consider what that "threat" could be.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZkHRnPmaRI

Interesting Yellow-Billed Loon video, vocalizing with the same calls as Winnipesaukee Loons.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyRTu-VJM1Q

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Old 09-26-2014, 10:55 AM   #7
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Default Male Loons doing the Dance

We have seen male Loon doing the "dance" when we were in Green's Basin earlier this year. He was vocalizing alot.. although we were not close to the female and chick - he did not like where we were... he swam under the water, came up and did the dance, and we knew he was trying to lure us away from his family-so we left. The dance is a sign of confrontation but also distress.
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