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2016 Loon Nest

$Experimenting with a 500 mm telephoto lens. Not bad. You can see the effect of the falling water level (61\" below the top of the dam), the nest is now sitting almost a foot above the lake surface. Photograph by George Fergusson 09 July 2016$ $My first view of the abandoned loon nest. The nest itself is the shallow depression in the foreground at the end of the mud slide. I found the broken (and very rotten) egg shells a short distance from the nest, back from the shore where they\'d been dragged by some critter attracted by the smell. Photograph by George Fergusson 21 July 2016$ $The loon egg shells. Be glad you can\'t smell them. Photograph by George Fergusson 21 July 2016$ $The loon egg shells. Be glad you can\'t smell them. Photograph by George Fergusson 21 July 2016$

$The second loon egg, found about 50\' from the nest. It too smelled quite rotten. Photograph by George Fergusson 21 July 2016$ $The first loon egg I found, about 20\' from the nest. It smelled like you\'d expect a rotten egg to smell: awful. Photograph by George Fergusson 21 July 2016$ $The site of the abandoned loon nest. The nest itself is the shallow depression on the left end of the mud slide. I found the broken (and very rotten) egg shells a short distance from the nest, back from the shore where they\'d been dragged by some critter attracted by the smell. Photograph by George Fergusson 21 July 2016$