LPC Loon Cam 2 💕 Mom Takes A Swim & Chick Takes 1st Dip! Adorable Closeups 💕 7.15.24

The loon chick is absolutely adorable and is pure fluff! Mom loon stayed on the nest all day - we see Dad Loon swimming around the nest waiting for his turn but Mom would not get up.

Later in the day, Mom will take two breaks to swim next to the nest. She makes beautiful haunting loon wails and the little chick will answer her ♥ Adorable closeups of the chick!

Mom loon enters the nest and she removes the broken eggshell and disposes of it in the water. The chick makes its way to the edge of the nest platform and when Mom enters the nest - the chick dips into the water and takes it first very short swim and back up on the nest :) lol

Tomorrow we will see chick #1 swimming with a parent most likely! Looking forward to seeing the second loon chick hatch as well. Thank you for watching!

To see the highlights below, please click on the timestamps to advance to that portion of the video.

TIMESTAMPS
00:00 OPENING Mom loon on the nest while Dad is swimming around nest
01:26 Mom slides into water
02:11 & 02:22 beautiful wails
04:55 Mom back to nest
05:50 Mom back in water'
06:09 Loon wails & closeups of chick
06:52 Cuteness chick
08:34 Mom to nest - takes eggshell off & disposes in water
11:15 Chick on edge of nest!
11:50 Mom back up nest & chick takes 1st dip in water
12:35 Mom rolls egg

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The loons are identified by coded leg bands.

Female: Left leg: white stripe (white background with a horizontal black stripe through the middle) over blue
Right leg: Silver over yellow stripe (yellow background with a horizontal black stripe through the middle)

Male:
Left leg: Blue stripe (blue background with a horizontal white stripe through the middle) over orange dot (orange background with a black dot in the middle)
Right leg: Blue dot (blue background with a white dot in the middle) over silver

The female at the Cam 2 nest was banded in 2017. She's been on territory in recent years, with the exception of 2023. That year, she was seen in this territory and in neighboring ones, but no pair ever settled down to nest.

Video captured & edited by Lady Hawk

Courtesy of LPC Preservation Committee Loon Cam - many thanks on this camera! #loonpreservationcommittee #loons #looncam #LPC