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: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] 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: <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] [
<mailto:[email protected]> mailto:[email protected]] 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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