Precious Loon Chick in Black and White

by Sandra Huston

Title

Precious Loon Chick in Black and White

Artist

Sandra Huston

Medium

Photograph - Photography

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"Precious Loon Chick in Black and White" is an original fine art wildlife photograph by Sandra Huston.

A photograph of a loon parent with its newly hatched chick captured on Tacoma Lakes in Litchfield, Maine.

Honored to be featured in the following Fine Art America and Pixels.com groups:
* Just Perfect on 5/30/19
* USA Photographers on 5/31/19
* Whats New on 5/31/19
* Wild Birds Of The World on 5/31/19
* FAA Portraits - Birds on 6/2/19
* New England Photographs on 6/3/19
* Wildlife One A Day on 6/5/19
* Kingdom Animalia on 6/9/19
* 10 Plus on 6/12/19
* Creative Black & White Fine Art Photographs on 7/10/19
* The Niche on 7/29/19
* Fine Art America Professionals on 8/6/20

The first few weeks of a loon chick’s life is very precarious; the loon parents have to be on the constant look out for eagles and osprey flying overhead also snapping turtles and largemouth bass below the water that prey on new loon chicks. That is why you will sometimes see day old chicks on their parents back or under their wings as that is the warmest and safest place to be until they are 2 weeks old. It’s amazing that it only takes few days and baby chicks can swim and dive on their own. Both loon parents will feed their chick small fish, crayfish and leeches until it can catch its own meal at about 8 weeks old. Loon chicks begin to learn how to fly when they are about 10 to 12 weeks old. They will now be almost as large as the parents but will have grayish brown plumage. Juvenile loon chicks will not develop the beautiful black and white breeding plumage until they reach 3 years old and are mature enough to breed. Once the ice begins to freeze here in the north the loons will migrate and winter along the Pacific and Atlantic coasts of North America, Iceland and Europe. The adult loons will not return to fresh water until spring when the ice has thawed and they are ready to breed once again.

The keywords associated with this photograph include: common loon, (Gavia immer) loon parent, loon chick, precious, unique, birds, waterfowl, avian, original, black and white, bw, monochrome, photography, nature, Woodbury Pond, Litchfield, Maine, Sandra Huston, wildlife, wild, animal, Pixels.com.

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