Woodbury

AT 645am, last Tuesday, I was in the Twin Cities suburb of Woodbury, doing my weekly check of the Endo-Center emergency generator on the roof. I was half way through checking the Generac when I heard a loon calling. I thought it was a ring tone on someone's smart phone.

I looked up 40 feet above the rooftop, and I watched a lone loon flying northeast out of town and about 50 miles an hour.

I never knew the Twin Cities had nesting pairs of loons. I occasionally see them in the spring, but never in the summer. This is the first summer loon that I have seen in the Twin Cities after living here 36 years.

One never knows everything, and one learns new things everyday.