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Originally Posted by SAMIAM
Picture in yesterdays Sun showed a loon mom with 5 babies.Never seen more than two on my end of the lake.
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I saw the same picture and was amazed by the 5 chicks. Then I looked closer and compared the size of the adult to the buoy floating in the foreground, and felt the adult was too small. Also looked up common loons and they typically lay 1 or 2 eggs, and like you, have never seen or heard of 5 chicks. I also could not see the distinctive white band around the neck of the adult. Finally, loon chicks seem to hold their greyish color and not look like mini-loons until well into summer.
Not sure what waterfowl (duck?) it is, but didn't feel it was a loon. JMO.
Dave