Lucky loon sought out Alberta campers to save it from fishing gear
NORDEGG, Alta. — This is a story about one lucky loon.
Don Gibson was standing with his family on a dock in Fish Lake Provincial Park in west-central Alberta last weekend when he noticed a normally standoffish loon — one of a group of five that call the lake home — swimming toward them.
“I said, ‘There’s no way that’s a real loon because they don’t come that close,’” Gibson recalled Friday from his home in Sundre, northwest of Calgary.
“I said, ‘Somebody’s out in the woods playing a trick on us. They’ve got a remote-control bird or something.’”