We had a call this morning from a lake resident who lives near the loon platform reporting a loon chick.  We hopped in our boat and went down the lake, and sure enough there were the adults and 1 chick by the buoys.  We watched for a while, and all at once a head appeared between the wings on the back of one of the adults.  As we watched, the freeloading chick finally entered the water and we took some photos.  One of the chicks was very aggressive towards the other chick–something we have not seen before from such young chicks.  Here are a couple of photographs.

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