[at-l] Loons, was Back from Boston

[janl2 at mindspring.com (Jan Leitschuh)]

> I occasionally see loons in sheltered salt-water coves in the winter, where I understand they spend their winters, though mostly to the south of Maine. 
> But I've never heard or seen them here during the summer. 

Do loons fly south in the winter?

There is an awful nifty inland lake in NC, huge and shallow, no 
hunting allowed, in a state park, right near the coast and near Lake 
Matamuskeet

...(the name is escaping me, starts with a P, near the Scuppernong 
River... Clark, help me out here),

... where I like to go in winter and paddle among the migrating 
northern fowl like Alaskan snow geese from the tundra, mergansers and 
trumpeter swans. The joint is packed by Christmas. The racket is so 
loud it goes on all night.

Once in awhile I think I hear a loon. Do I? It makes sense to me that 
they would visit coastal Carolina in the winter, but the goose noise 
is so loud it's hard to discern. Does anyone know if loons migrate 
this far south?

Loon Shoe, who also remembers bird and plants names more readily than 
people, but obviously, not lake names...

PS If anyone nearby likes to paddle and wants to take a winter trip to 
this amazing Carolina treasure, e-mail me off list. Camping at the 
state park.


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