Both Bob Guadreault and Willie Wanklyn have watched the collared loons and their baby just off their respective docks. Baby is now diving, though still riding on a parental back as needed.
Bob has also seen:
A raccoon swimming along the shore, from Sally's to Derek's. Tail and fat body floating well out of the water. Masked head very prominent.
A bald eagle overhead. Tail and head lit up when between observers and the sun.
A golden eagle, adolescent, patrolling the shoreline.
A seagull patrolling regularly along the shoreline, always in a clockwise direction. There were two floating on the lake about three weeks ago.
Possibly, a pair of grebes. Pansy and Bob saw one of the pair, over a period of several days, occasionally accompanied by the second. They demostrated "grebe" behaviour in the middle of the lake, they were grebe size, and dove frequently. Mainly white with caramel splashes on the body and the wings, and a roseate around the eyes. Bob couldn't confirm his identification despite referral to a plethora of bird books.
Several common mergansers with between 4 to 16 young ones in tow.
A pair of hooded mergansers during most of the spring, with many incursions into the forest nearby, indicative of a nesting site. They nest in trees....usually in old pileated woodpecker holes.
Regular sightings of a great blue heron flying low over the middle of the lake, going towards McDougall's and Biron's. (The Hugessen/Wankly household has seen this bird too as it seems to like to hang out between Land Island, aka the Presqu'ille, and Pine Tree Point.)
For his part, Willie spent some minutes staring at and being stared back at by a doe, who then proceeded to follow him for a bit as he continued his walk. On another afternoon walk, he spotted an actual turtle at the actual turtle crossing on the Gustave road by Rainbow River. It was big...about a foot long.
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