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Update on the Loon Nesting

May 7, 2023 by Gene Klco

I observed the loon pair circling the nest on Friday morning. They acted like they wanted to get on, but for some reason did not.

I kayaked over to the nest to get a closer look when the loons were nowhere in sight. I found a broke clam shell on the nest and it looked like something had been on the nest. I wondered if another animal had climbed on the nest in the last few weeks since it has been up and somehow ‘defiled’ it per loon standards.

	The only thing I could think to do was to replace the reeds that make up the nesting material on the platform. I decided to take some ‘new’ reeds over to the nest and replace the old reeds with new. So I piled some more reeds that had washed in the shore in front of our cottage on an old sailboard and towed it over to the nest.
I replaced the whole center of the bed of the platform with the new reeds… … and generally cleaned up the bed to make it look better.
	And all the while I was doing this the loon pair watched me from a far. They stuck around to see me leave the area and kayak away, then disappeared. I was only around the lake for the rest of the day and never saw them near or on the nest before leaving. We will be back in a week and will hope to see them on the nest.

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