Loons

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When we moved here, we “rearranged” the house from how it had been used before to put the dining area in the room with the most windows…the most windows overlooking the lake and most of our gardens. Yesterday at lunch we were treated by an amusing display by four loons…one had caught a very large (relative to the bird anyway) shad and had it in its mouth and seemed to be trying to figure out how to eat it while the other three loons tried to get it from him.

The loons are fairly common here in winter and we see more of them during migration and rarely in summer. We occasionally hear their wonderful trill…

We realized we hadn’t seen the slate juncos for a few days…safe journey north. The hummingbirds will probably be here by the end of the month!

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