The Loons are back. Our resident Loon returned mid-April along with some of its friends. They arrived whilst the lake was still partially covered with ice flows. These two shots were taken from shore. The Loon along with a couple of ducks were surrounded by flow ice and by a thin layer of ice formed on the very still water overnight. They had an area free of ice about 30 x 50 meters in size. The ducks had no trouble either getting on to the ice flow or airborne; however, the Loon was trapped as it could neither get up into the air nor onto the ice flow. The Loon did not seem to be too disturbed by my proximity; however, it did unsuccessfully try to get airborne several times. I will post images of these attempts tomorrow. The Loon also dove several times, but at no time did it try to go under the ice. It simply seemed to be swimming and fishing.