[Tweeters] Common Loon at Lake Kokanee

[Teresa Michelsen via Tweeters]

Hello all,
Last night I was enjoying dinner on my deck overlooking Lake Kokanee (Mason County), and I heard the unmistakable call of a Common Loon – though no replies. I know they do disperse some after breeding, but I don’t find any records online of Common Loons on Lake Kokanee, although there are a few up at Lake Cushman, from 2023 and earlier. I can’t locate it more precisely, other than to say it came from down on the lake somewhere, and I live around mid-lake. Loon calls are obviously hard to locate any more precisely, especially from the top of a steep bank. I don’t really know how to report this, although I can look things up on eBird I don’t seem to be able to enter a new location (it doesn’t recognize Lake Kokanee as a place) and I don’t have precise coordinates due to the way sound echoes up here. I grew up with a family cabin on Loon Lake north of Spokane, so I know the sound well.

Is this important enough to try to report somehow? I also have bald eagles nesting each year. I don’t know if this lake is considered part of the river, or what (although it’s dammed on each end). It’d be nice to know how to report sightings that seem significant or unusual.

Sorry, I am an eBird novice, so any advice is helpful. Mostly I would use my computer for this, not a phone.

Teresa Michelsen
Hoodsport WA
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