Hi Tweets,

>Len J. wrote -
>
>(snip)
><<< It was blinking but still
>had not removed its' head from under its' wing. I took more pictures
>and then picked up a stick about 2 feet long and proceeded to stroke
>its' head which it finally took out from under its' wing.

Jack Bowling writes:

>I think any creature woken from a dead sleep would be startled, Len.

But loons aren't seals, and don't normally haul out onto land to sleep--with
their feet so far to the back of the body, they're far too vulnerable. Len's
ease of approach shows how unusually easy a prey that loon would have made
had Len been a predator. Usually only an incubating loon will sleep anywhere
but on the water, and even then it's on its floating nest, so a loon in deep
sleep on land away the nest sounds odd. Under the described circumstance,
I'd wonder about its health, too. Could it have been in the first stages of
lead poisoning?

Michael Price
Vancouver BC Canada
mprice at mindlink.net