On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 10:35 PM, Rick Womer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ooohhh! > > I love canoes. We have a lovely red canoe we got each > other as a 10th anniversary present, almost 21 years > ago, and we love going out in it. Last summer we had > my grandfather's 1906-vintage Old Town rehabbed, and > it is lovely. I'll have to post some pics sometime. > > Your Black-Throated Diver looks very similar to one of > our Common Loons. The loons' calls are amazing and > lovely on a quiet lake.
You're right there, Rick. The loons' calls (there are several) virtually define the wilderness in this part of the world. They're haunting and beautiful. I have memories of camping and cottaging on quiet lakes north of Toronto and Montreal, waking up at sunrise to hear their call. In most cases they were several kilometres away, but the call carries across the glassy-still water, echoing off the surrounding hills. I remember one cool summer morning as a child, sitting with my father at the end of a dock, watching a loon dive for minutes at a time, then surface hundreds of metres away. We sat there for a good hour watching it, not saying a word to each other, just pointing every few minutes when it surfaced: "There it is!", then remaining quiet again until the next sighting. It was pretty cool. Sadly, due to acid rain and global warming, loons are on the decline. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
