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Common Loon (Gavia immer)
A simple photo of a common loon (Gavia immer) on the Mississippi River between Wisconsin and Minnesota. You can see it was snowing as I took this photo, most of the river was frozen over but this section was open and a variety of waterfowl made use of that fact. Loons are diving birds that chase down and feed on fish, infact while this one was further out it came up with and ate some sort of fish. It was cool to see but too far out for any worthwhile photos, surprisingly the loon ended up moving closer to shore afterwards. It was by no means close but I think this is the closest I have seen a wild Loon so far. Fitting that the Loon sighting was on a trip to Minnesota as the Loon is MNs state bird, in my opinion that is much better than Wisconsin's Robin.
Common Loon (Gavia immer)
A simple photo of a common loon (Gavia immer) on the Mississippi River between Wisconsin and Minnesota. You can see it was snowing as I took this photo, most of the river was frozen over but this section was open and a variety of waterfowl made use of that fact. Loons are diving birds that chase down and feed on fish, infact while this one was further out it came up with and ate some sort of fish. It was cool to see but too far out for any worthwhile photos, surprisingly the loon ended up moving closer to shore afterwards. It was by no means close but I think this is the closest I have seen a wild Loon so far. Fitting that the Loon sighting was on a trip to Minnesota as the Loon is MNs state bird, in my opinion that is much better than Wisconsin's Robin.