Loons have two eggs in the nest

Sometimes the only way to "see" is to analyze video. The conditions were not that good when I went out to shoot some video of the loon on the nest. The wind was blowing, the camera was shaking, and the sun was at the wrong angle. But, when I played back the video, I could see that the parent loon was manipulating two eggs on the nest (where I originally thought that there was only one!) Yay! So, we have two chances to have loon chicks.

NOTE: I was again about 300 feet away from the nest. I did have the camera on a tripod but did not bring sandbags to stabilize it, although with the the lens extended to its farthest zoom, the wind seemed to be jostling the lens itself, more than the tripod.