Hi all,
No one has claimed that canoe yet. If you have a red canoe owning neighbor who is not here at this time, please check with them so we can get it back where it belongs ASAP.
The loons are fine so far but the strong north wind on Sunday was pushing waves right up that ramp to the loons chest. I tried to time a picture to show that but it was so rough I was lucky to get the loon in the picture at all. It was close enough to be worrisome for sure.
If you compare the above picture with this one taken today, it looks like the water has dropped a couple inches at least but it hasn’t. It’s just the waves we’ll all have to worry about for the next 28 days. I’d bet that those leaves and sticks on the ramp are the loon’s work to create a little dam there.
We had a bit of a raft emergency after it broke from its north side anchor Sunday. It was pushed about ten feet out of that first picture by the north wind but when the wind shifted to south it brought the raft back to bang on the rock and block the access to the ramp. The loon is right behind the raft in this picture. 
A thank you to John Ebert for helping get it out of there in a hurry. We got lucky and found both loons feeding just south of the island when we got there so spooking them off the nest wasn’t an issue. If a loon leaves the nest frantically, there is always a chance of it accidentally rolling the egg(s) into the water. One loon did follow us in though and watched us pull the raft away before climbing back on the nest. John was concentrating hard on grabbing the remaining anchor line while I was so busy trying not to ding a prop that neither of us thought to look to see how many eggs there were. We haven’t found the nest empty since then so one or two eggs will remain a mystery for the time being. The raft is floating on the other side of the island (without the canopy) for the time being while we decide what to do with it. Over the next few days, we’ll put the rest of the signs around the island to try to keep people off there for the next month. Excellent weather is forecast for the next ten days so we’ll get it done ASAP.
On Monday, we found the mate low in the water and
the one on the nest crouched down, both looking north. We looked but could not see what was bothering them. The most likely answer is another loon though. Mike
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