Mrs. SteveA was on the beach at LSP yesterday. She saw a "raft" of 7 Loons...
She also noted that they are starting to change color.. to brown.
When we visited the Loon Center a month ago.. we were told that this is normal Loon behaviour. They explained that this was a way for the Loons to establish a group that all got along and would stay together for the trip to the Atlantic.
Wonderful stuff.. I was amazed, when watching the film at the Loon Center, that they have been around for over 60 million years!
This link says 65 million!
"The earliest fossil records of loon go back to the Paleocene age, over 65 million years ago! "
http://birding.about.com/od/birdsloons/a/loons.htm