We're Hiring After School Staff!
Site is located at Plainfield Elementary School & Mount Lebanon School. Hours are 3pm-6pm. Call Nicole Berthiaume in the office 863-1160 or email her at childcare@coniston.org
Tax time is coming!
YMCA Camp Coniston Inc. tax ID #04-3357821
Resident Camp Registration:
Session 1: full, shortest waitlists for boys & girls
Session 2: full, longest waitlists for both boys & girls
Session 3: full, long waitlist for boys, average waitlist for girls
Session 4: full, long waitlist for boys, average waitlist for girls
1-week camp: full, minimal waitlist for both boys & girls
Adventure Trip Registration:
- Lobster Safari: full
- Northern New England: full
- Maine Voyager: 3 open spaces
- Green Mountain Explorer: 1 open space
- Coastal Navigator: 3 open spaces
- Quebec Quest: full with long waitlist
Staff Applications are online for you to print & send for this coming summer.
2/16 Chris Sullivan
2/23 Beth Sawitz
2/24 Carter Bascom
2/26 Sara Noble
......March!!!
3/1 Caitlin Elgert
3/7 Leigh Bears
3/9 Meg MacInnes
3/14 David Salvay
3/20 Beth Cairns
3/21 Liz Morris
3/23 Becca Haas
3/25 Sammy Dunn
3/27 Tom Morris & Jodie Darlington
3/31 Emma Gladstone
The LOON is the Coniston mascot! It's wailing cries at night are memorable to all who have lived at camp during the summer.
Loons weigh 8-10 lbs and can live 15-30 years.
Loons usually return to the same breeding ground year after year.
After hatching, baby loon chicks are carried on their parents' backs for the first few weeks.
Loons have bright red eyes.
Loons can only take flight from the water. Their wings are small for their bodies, so they need a 'water runway' to run along the surface of the water before gaining enough speed to become airborne.
Once they are airborne, they have been clocked at flying 70 miles per hour!
Walking on land is difficult for a loon because their legs are further back on their body. This is why they make their nests close to the water's edge.
It is very important to stay away from a loon nest and loon chicks. They shy away from humans, and it's important not to distress them during breeding season (summer).
Loons find their food by sight. They mainly eat fish, crayfish, frogs, snails, salamanders and leeches. They are found in both saltwater and freshwater but they prefer clear lakes because they easily see their prey.
There are 3 types of loon calls, the YODEL which is territorial and used by males, the WAIL which resembles a wolf howl and is used to locate each other, and the TREMOLO which is like a high pitched laugh used when they are disturbed or used as a flight call.