Moon Lake, in Watersmeet Township, Gogebic County, Michigan
"Unless we have a Common Merganser disguised for April Fools Day, we have the first loon of 2012 on the lake. The ice was officially out of the lake on March 22 so we went 11 days without a loon. We have seen this situation in other years where the ice went out early but the loons return according to their own schedule."