This will be a road trip as we’ll head to the coast to look for  "our" loons in the ocean, patiently waiting until ice out lets them return to western Maine and breed. We should see ducks that normally breed up in the arctic and come down for the winter too -- scoters, red-breasted and common mergansers, goldeneyes, harlequin ducks, horned and red-necked grebes, plus purple sandpipers, great cormorants, etc.