Photos of Animals, Fish, Birds & Bugs on a Canoe Trip

An abandoned loon egg. it's a long story, but when I discovered it after it had obviously rolled out of a nest perched on a mud mound, I contacted the Adirondack Loon Conservancy and was told that if it had been there for two days or more, it would not be viable. I should collect it and freeze it and transport it to the Conservancy for chemical testing analysis, which I did. A sad year for us at the lake with no loon family after several successful loon family years.

Loons are "disappearing" (not just in Manitoba)

I listen for loons on lakes in the Sierra in the fall. We get a few stragglers off the main flyway. None this year and I was out plenty.
Maybe the best thing about the North Woods.

Here are some pictures of a family of loons, two adults and a juvenile, that I photographed while canoeing on Lower Togue Pond in Baxter State Park, Maine, at the end of September. They seemed hypervigilant because a pair of bald eagles kept close tabs on them.