Common Loon

Yesterday, Amazon delivered a new bird book to us: Birds of New Jersey. Looking through the waterfowl pages, we decided that we hoped to see a loon someday.

This morning, an odd looking, large duck landed on the lake. Chris got the binoculars and what do you know, it was a loon. How lucky is that? Okay, it's a common loon, and our daughter Karen makes fun of us because we think the common merganser and common goldeneye are rare birds. Well, we've never seen a loon before, common or not, so we took a few photos. This is the best, but it's a grey bird on a grey lake and a grey day.