Diving birds

Usage examples of loons.

Above them the loons laughed, and herons called, and in the dense forest ashore foxes barked and owls hooted.

For many nights the three voyageurs camped, slept, and dreamed, with only the laughing loons, the calling herons, the plaintive owls, and distant fox bark to sweep across their slumbers.

Most often, these had to do with the loons that arrived each April, nested, and raised their young well into November.

Everyone in town knew that the fuse box was behind a small panel in back of the peanut butter in the kitchen cabinet, that the loons were gone for the winter, and that Buck Kipling kept a set of tire chains under the seat of his truck.

She might have kept a watch out for loons now as she drove around the lake, had her mind not been focused on another spot.