loons calling in the mist

While watching two loons who are upset by the presence of an eagle, someone gets a strike and then loses the fish.
Taken on Lake Wasson, MN, near Loon Point Resort

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• fishing
• loons
• dawn
• mist
• lake
• funny
• eagle

[pete5668]

I think I heard Ron Paul. i DID, i DID hear Ron Paul!

[afosan]

@pete5668 I didn't see him in the boat :)

[MrDosteovsky]

I don't want to like this video I want to LOVE IT!!!!!!!!! GO MINNESOTA!

[afosan]

@MrDosteovsky Glad you love it. I only wish I'd done a better job filming. It was my first digital camera and I forgot I had a playback screen! With the camera up to my eye, I couldn't see where the fishing line was :) Also, it was on full zoom...not good for close-ups!

[0FreezeMan0]

Anyone know the name of the animal that makes the call around :38? Or is it still a Loon?

[afosan]

@0FreezeMan0 That's the sound is the wail....used among a family of loons to move closer together. I think another loon might have made that. These two were raising the alarm...likely in response to the eagle which had just flown to it's nest nearby. The wail is the sound I hear most often at the lake and seems to be more in the evening or at night....maybe coming home to the nest or something. I love that sound.

[LexiePage252]

I absolutely ADORE loons.

I hear them constantly when I'm up at my lake house in Ontario.

They're amazing to fall asleep to.

[ladygreystoke]

I agree! I am from Nova Scotia and for a while I lived in a house next to a lake. I always stopped what I was doing to listen to them.

[pete5668]

@afosan he's flyin around ranting and raving about peace and the value of being weak

[TheHeuristicIslander]

Amazing! how haunting a melody!

[cgrasser7075861624]

thanks for posting audio of loons and the lost fish is funny too

[franjos2]

The human voices ruined this video for me.

[bluntis420]

@0FreezeMan0 It's still a loon.