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Update
on Loons and the 3 Chicks!
July
4,
2025 by Gene
Klco
Back to the cottage for
the 4th
of July week, I was finally able to get a few photos of the loons when it wasn't windy.
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Although
they are not great photos, they do show that there are still 3 chicks
after 3
weeks.
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They
weren’t ready to allow me to get too close and I wasn’t going to push
it. I
wanted to at least get a few shots of the three chicks. Hopefully they
will all
survive and I’ll get some better ones soon.
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On
July
3rd I went out and cleared the loon nest and brought it in. Note the
4th egg still on the nest. I also noted the fly paper – still one
and a half made it through the month and a half. |
Randy
helped bring the buoys in. Otherwise it
would take me 6-7 trips to bring them in via kayak. Here they are all
cleaned
up and waiting to dry and be put away for the winter.
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Interestingly,
it appears the sticky fly strip proved very helpful in ridding the
black fly
problem. This shows a portion of the sticky fly strip vs. the hanging
fly
killer. While one was cleaner looking, the other did a much better job.
We will be planning for black fly deterrence next year.
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