{"id":8284,"date":"2017-06-04T13:26:21","date_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/?p=8284"},"modified":"2018-02-13T11:25:40","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T16:25:40","slug":"a-cozy-nesting-platform-for-our-loons-on-black-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/en\/a-cozy-nesting-platform-for-our-loons-on-black-lake\/8284","title":{"rendered":"A Cozy Nesting Platform for our Loons on Black Lake."},"content":{"rendered":"

We all love the common loons<\/a> and their very unique cry on our lakes even when it is heard in the middle of the night!<\/p>\n

Listen if you wish!<\/a><\/p>\n

As far as I know, there is only one nest in Dunany. It is on Curran. So, when we were approached by D\u00e9veloppement ornitologique Argenteuil<\/a> who proposed to install a nesting platform on one of the other three lakes, I said sure.<\/p>\n

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By the way, this NGO is strongly supported by the MRC – which pays for the platform – and the Townships of Wentworth and Gore.<\/p>\n

Black Lake was chosen because it has a large inhabited area – so-called Frenchies bay – where loons can reproduce away from their natural predators (that includes us). By the way, loons lay their eggs in June.<\/p>\n

Here I want to thank Maurice Pilon who happily volunteered to help install the platform and will handle the maintenance, including the removal in the fall and the re-installation once the ice is gone. The man with him in the pictures that illustrate this Post taken on June 1 is Martin Picard, the biologist who runs the DOA.<\/p>\n

Let us hope some loons will like this new home.<\/p>\n

As for us, if you wish to have a look at it, look from afar, use binoculars. Getting close to the platform will scare away the loons and defeat our purpose.<\/p>\n

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