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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Hi Tweeters,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'> Last week we spent a morning wandering along roads just south of the Canadian border in Okanogan County. At one lake there, a shallow lake northeast of Beaver Lake we found a pair of adult loons. We had been hoping to see chicks, but saw none. While we paused there to eat lunch, however, we got to hear a loon singing, and then watched while one of the loons decided to scare away an American Coot. Finally we saw that there were chicks. Anyway, I already posted these pictures on Facebook, Western Washington Birder. Viewers liked them so much I decided to post them here. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'> <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/29258421@N07/albums/72177720299860223">https://www.flickr.com/photos/29258421@N07/albums/72177720299860223</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Happy birding, Charlotte Byers, Edmonds<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>