Single loons and pairs seem to be back on Six Mile Lake, but all are adults. Betsy Bloom/Daily News photo

The loons put on a show this past Sunday at Six Mile Lake.

During a pontoon boat ride, two adults fishing repeatedly surfaced right alongside, despite our initial efforts to give them a wide berth. We shut down the motor and let them move away at their own pace before going on.

Seeing them brought mixed emotions, though, because these loons had no chick and might not even be the same pair that had the first successful nesting on Six Mile Lake in at least a decade earlier this summer.

I first spotted the chick June 20, riding on an adult’s back. Comparing it to photos on the Loon Preservation Committee’s website, https://loon.org, it looked to be perhaps no more than a week old.

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