Very eggciting news to share!! We have a pip on one of the eggs seen today later in the afternoon! Pip Pip Hooray!! We were going to be on pip watch beginning tomorrow ( July 14th ) so the little loon chick is ahead of schedule! We should have a hatch sometime tomorrow!

Dad loon is on the nest and gets up to roll the eggs and we see the pip on the egg on the right. There is some debris on the other egg no confirmed pip in egg#2 yet. Dad will take a break and we have a great zoom on the eggs and if you listen closely you will hear the chirping of the little chick! Mom and Dad loon will be paying close attention to the hatching of their first chick! Thank you for watching!

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The loons are identified by coded leg bands.

Female: Left leg: white stripe (white background with a horizontal black stripe through the middle) over blue
Right leg: Silver over yellow stripe (yellow background with a horizontal black stripe through the middle)

Male:
Left leg: Blue stripe (blue background with a horizontal white stripe through the middle) over orange dot (orange background with a black dot in the middle)
Right leg: Blue dot (blue background with a white dot in the middle) over silver

The female at the Cam 2 nest was banded in 2017. She's been on territory in recent years, with the exception of 2023. That year, she was seen in this territory and in neighboring ones, but no pair ever settled down to nest.

Video captured & edited by Lady Hawk

Courtesy of LPC Preservation Committee Loon Cam many thanks on this camera! #loonpreservationcommittee #loons #looncam #LPC