SUN JOURNAL • June 13, 2025
Bill Lowe says it could be any day now — Songo Pond is getting ready to welcome its second loon chick in the last 40 years. Last year, Lowe and fellow residents reached out to Audubon’s Maine Loon Restoration Project, hoping to reverse decades of failed nesting, which had produced just one chick since the 1980s, in 2023. They scouted Songo by boat and chose a quiet spot to place a floating cedar-log nest — 4.5 feet square, anchored just offshore. Installed after the 2023 breeding season, the raft gave the loons time to get used to it. This spring, it was set up again.