Just heard my first loon...
 

Today, around 7:30pm. Not in the water...but some tremolos from overhead and way off in distance. Poor birds are going to have to wait another couple of weeks I think. They get points for trying, though.

It was only three tremolo's, but boy was it a nice surprise. It was so faint and distant...it's amazing I picked it up...but it such a unique sound. It just stands out.

Swimming the channel, too!
 

Your ears have confirmed what my eyes were unable to verify. Sunday evening I thought I saw one swimming in the channel, but I was too far away with no binoculars at hand. Now that you've heard one I don't feel so uncertain about what I saw. ;)

Photo Evidence...
 

The latest shots in the photo album on the Mount Washington site include a lovely picture of a loon floating on Ossipee Lake -- it was taken 4/10.

Sighting -- no -- make that "Hearing"
 

I can't see it, but I heard one this morning at 6:15AM.

Heard and saw a loon in Moultonborough as I was sitting on the dock taking Sunset pictures Sat & Sun nights. I will post my picture soon.

I haven't heard any yet, but....
 

there have been quite a few loons paddling by here. They always show up just after ice-out.
http://www.winnipesaukee.com/photopo...702_1_-med.JPG
...check each other out, pair up and head out to make their nests. Here was my first loon of the season!
http://www.winnipesaukee.com/photopo...690_1_-med.JPG
"Norman, you old poop! It's a loon!"
.....well maybe it is a merganser?.....I stand corrected.

Loony
 

Check out these sites to hear some loony stuff! :laugh:

Three Different Loon Calls

Four Different Calls

More Songs and Calls

How to do the Loon Call

All about loons - Good information :)

Grant....
is there a link to that? I can't seem to find it. Would love to make it my wallpaper. Thanks so much.

Ossipee is pretty much where I spent most of my summers, with love trysts in Wolfeboro. :)

Well, I'm not Grant, but:

http://mountwashington.org/photojour...2005_04_10.jpg

Last night about 12:30 am, in bed with my windows open (in Jonathan's Landing, thus my name), I heard loons calling back and forth for over 10 minutes. It brought back memories of when we rented a cottage on Long Island for 20 years...and a loon would appear on the first day we were there and on the day we left (maybe coincidentally but I always thought they did it on purpose because we loved them so). Also, shades of OGP.

There's nothing so wonderfully haunting as that call. Anyway, I digress. What was so unusual about last night, was that at one point they sounded alarmed. I also heard a distant yip not like dogs but more like a coyote. Somebody said there's a coyote on Long Island - is that possible? And, do you think they were disturbing a loon nest which if I remember sits close to shore but not on it necessarily.

Hate to see anything happen to a loon or a loon's nest or egg(s) but guess that's nature.