Tag Archives: Wildlife
No Loon Chicks This Year
I’m very late in posting this loon report on the blog, but there will be no loon chicks this year. Sigh. Just before the 4th of July, while I was on the lake, I watched both loons swimming and diving … Continue reading
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Tagged Campground, eagles, loons, Wildlife
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Loon Update: Something Doesn’t Add Up, Or Does It?
With this big lens of mine, I’ve been able to keep track of our loons better than I ever have. Back on April 29th, I happened to see them mate. I counted out the days and marked my calendar for … Continue reading
Switching Gears
Today, I hung up my teaching hat for the summer. The campground hat sits facing forward, with my writing hat tucked underneath, waiting for it’s chance to be worn on top. Before I pulled down on the brim of … Continue reading
Only One Eaglet
Sadly, sometime over Memorial Day Weekend, the younger of the eaglets disappeared. There were heavy winds, so perhaps it stretched its wings and was lifted away. A wildlife photographer I know witnessed an osprey dive bombing the nest on … Continue reading
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So Much Rain!
I was so worried about my loons all weekend. The idea for Cooper and Packrat, didn’t come out of thin air, you know. Lower Range has risen to flood the loon nest three times in the last twenty-two years. … Continue reading
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Tagged Cooper and Packrat, eagles, kayaking, loons, Wildlife
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Loon Behavior I’d Never Seen Before
I snuck out in the kayak last Saturday, hoping to catch proof of my loons nesting. And nesting they were. It was a beautiful nest, made of grasses and leaves and twigs. I wished them much luck, as last year … Continue reading
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Tagged Cooper and Packrat, loons, Wildlife, writing notes
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2013 Eaglets Revealed!
In spite of a busy opening weekend at the campground, I managed to get down to the lake to check on my eagles. It’d been two weeks since the eaglets were born. Any day now, I told my campers, we’d … Continue reading
Surprise!
I was already late for dinner, and I’d come home to tell Dave I’d be a few minutes more. “I have to grab the SD card from the trail cam,” I told him. “It’s been there for two weeks … Continue reading
We Have Eaglets!
How do I know? Nothing says ‘babies are in the nest’, like a pair of doting parents. I just happened to catch one of the adults wing into the aerie with a fish in its talons. After dropping supper … Continue reading
The Loons Arrive!
I was working on another Cooper and Packrat story when I came to a stand still . . . stuck . . . wordless . . . so I set out for the hiking trail and the lake to find … Continue reading