common loon

August 10, 2014
Silence on Maine’s Lakes: Help Prevent Lead Poisoning of Our Loons

Silence on Maine’s Lakes: Help Prevent Lead Poisoning of Our Loons

Loon Family — Three-Day-Old Chicks by Leigh Macmillen Hayes As lakefront homeowners in Maine, we associate the call of the loon with summer. And this summer, on our lake a pair of loons finally had success in breeding chicks. The babies are now about three weeks […]
April 10, 2008

Maine Waterfront Real Estate – It’s for the Birds!

Before buying my Maine lakefront camp I was not really “in touch” with our feathered friends. Having grown up in the city, my idea of birds was pigeons, grackles and the sparrows. They co-existed in the old South Boston neighborhood that was all the world to […]