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

 

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. 

 

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:

 

Asylum (today I received another vote for this descriptor from Dick Filby)

Commitment

Giggle

Toon

Cry

Loomery (loonery?)

Raft

Water dance

Yodel

Dive, diversity (if more than one species present)

Council

School

Lake

Lot, as in small lot or big lot

Family

And, brace yourselves for this one:

Sheer loonacy!

 

Good boidn!

Larry

GJ

 

 

 

 

 

 

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?

 

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?

 

Larry

GJ

 

 

From: 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?

 

J D Birchmeier's report of 23 Common Loons on a private lake west of Erie, documented by photos,

is way more loons than I have heard of for one area. I chatted with JD and raised the question 

"could these have been cormorants?" but silly me, they were photo-documented loons of the Gavia

immer type!

 

I'll through this out on the "can you top this" list.

 

Joe Roller, Denver

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