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RetiredDave
08/21/2018 06:10PM
  
When do the loons leave the northern lakes and head south? Will they still be there the last week of September?

Thanks!

Dave
 
bellolake
08/22/2018 10:12PM
  
There are some around well into November most years. As long as there is open water they will hang around. I always hear them by my cabin during deer season.
 
Cedarboy
08/21/2018 06:16PM
  
Back in the late 80s I was lucky to enough to see 20-30 Loons rafting up as they call it before the migration south. It was on Alpine lake just west of Seagull on a Labor day trip. Could not have been too much later after that.
CB

 
mooseplums
08/21/2018 06:51PM
  
I've seen them as late as the 3rd week of October.

 
boonie
08/21/2018 07:08PM
  
I'm usually there the last 2 weeks of September and usually see some, but it can be a little hit or miss sometimes.
 
ParkerMag
08/22/2018 07:35AM
  
By late September I've generally found only juveniles still around, and man, are they starved for attention!
 
Minnesotian
08/22/2018 07:34AM
  

You'll still see them, but they will be molting into their winter clothes. Might throw you off for a second.


Common Loon
 
RetiredDave
08/22/2018 05:20PM
  
Thanks folks!


Well, I'll either hear them this year or I won't.


Dave
 
LindenTree3
08/22/2018 07:56PM
  
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