Date: 04/23/2003

Number: 1

Until today, this year's loon flight has been paltry, at best. The peak of the migration has passed and we have only counted 60 loons since early April, our poorest showing to date in 12 years. We feared the huge die-off of loons over the last 4 years on Lake Huron and Lake Erie must have severely reduced numbers (and probably has). Today, however, there was a big flight of 111 loons from 7:28 a.m. to 9:01 a.m. with most birds passing by between 8:00 and 8:30 a.m. Although most were in small groups of 1 to 5, several larger flights went by including groups of 9, 16, 13 and 10. This was our 2nd highest count for one day in 12 years of monitoring. Last year's big day was April 20 when 364 loons "darkened" the sky.

Harrietsville, ON

Latitude: 42.6 Longitude: -81

Observed by: Dave
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