Juvenile loon free to fly away again after Ottawa ice rescue

Between the Arctic where it was born this summer and the coastal waters where it will winter, a young red-throated loon stopped in Ottawa and got marooned on a frozen pond at Andrew Haydon Park on Sunday.
But thanks to the kindness of strangers and two local bird-rescue organizations, it was free and back on course again Monday.
“It was heartbreaking seeing it on the ice – it was trying to get into the water but it couldn’t,” said Andrew Anderson, one of a number of