Swallow Hard

I watch this guy for about 20 minutes or so this morning. When I first saw him I thought he was a gull who had an eel in his mouth. As he was adjusting to swallow he was divebombed by a couple of gulls, but he dove. He stayed down way longer than a gull would and that's when I realize he was not a gull after all. Once he surfaced I watched him for some time and snapped quite a few blips. While doing so he raised up, stretched, and I can only assume adjusted what he had swallowed.

It's unusual to see a loon on the river. I also saw a pair of hooded mergansers and red-breasted mergansers. I've never seen either of those along the river. I'm guessing that the blizzard drove them off course and they might have been resting and feeding.