[cobirds] Re: Wow! Is 23 Common Loons a high count for Colorado?

If the birds were vocalizing, would the credit for the music go to Looney
Tunes? (and a thanks to Porky Pig)

Karl Stecher
Centennial



larry arnold writes:

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> Thank you, Mark Peterson, for the link back to those postings, and good
> grief I got both the date and the final count wrong! It was on 04 April
> 2009 - 72 COLO had been reported to me by Ronda and Deb at 0830 hrs, 92 were
> counted by me, Sean and Jacob at midday, and 124 were tallied at dusk by
> four of us looking northward from the west side kiosk.
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> Anyway, I enjoyed looking back at our thread and here are some of the names
> that were proposed for such a mob-goblin of loons:
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> Asylum (today I received another vote for this descriptor from Dick Filby)
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> Commitment
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> Giggle
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> Toon
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> Cry
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> Loomery (loonery?)
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> Raft
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> Water dance
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> Yodel
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> Dive, diversity (if more than one species present)
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> Council
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> School
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> Lake
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> Lot, as in small lot or big lot
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> Family
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> And, brace yourselves for this one:
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> Sheer loonacy!
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> Good boidn!
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> Larry
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> GJ
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> From: cobirds@googlegroups.com [mailto:cobirds@googlegroups.com] On Behalf
> Of larry arnold
> Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 9:44 AM
> To: 'Colorado Birds'
> Cc: WSBN
> Subject: RE: [cobirds] Wow! Is 23 Common Loons a high count for Colorado?
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> Hey Joe, it's not even close! Maybe it's a high count for October, but
> several of us counted and recounted 128 COLO at Highline S.P. in Mesa County
> on the evening of 09 April 2009. The number of COLO had been increasing all
> day long, but our maximum tally occurred at dusk. In hindsight, I *wish* I
> had returned the following morning to see if there were even more! An
> ensuing discussion on wsbn and cobirds was quite a thread, as everyone
> chimed in to offer collective terms that could be applied to that many
> loons, e.g., "loonybin" and all sorts of other colorful terms, wish I could
> recall some of them, eh?
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> Larry
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> GJ
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> From: <mailto:cobirds@googlegroups.com> cobirds@googlegroups.com [
> <mailto:cobirds@googlegroups.com> mailto:cobirds@googlegroups.com] On Behalf
> Of Joe Roller
> Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 8:00 AM
> To: Colorado Birds
> Subject: [cobirds] Wow! Is 23 Common Loons a high count for Colorado?
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> J D Birchmeier's report of 23 Common Loons on a private lake west of Erie,
> documented by photos,
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> is way more loons than I have heard of for one area. I chatted with JD and
> raised the question
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> "could these have been cormorants?" but silly me, they were photo-documented
> loons of the Gavia
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> immer type!
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> I'll through this out on the "can you top this" list.
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> Joe Roller, Denver
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