About 20 years ago we had a similar incident happen. Bob found a baby loon chick behind our garage. It still had its fluffy gray feathers, and was unable to walk or fly. The 2 parents were calling frantically from the lakeshore, one in the water and the other flapping along the shoreline and trying to walk up toward the house. The garage is about 150 ft. from the lake. I picked it up and couldn't find any ruffled feathers or injury to the bird, so I returned it to the lake and 2 very grateful loon parents. All 3 swam away, and we watched the baby grow up to be a fine looking loon! We still wonder, when looking at pictures, how that baby loon got to that location. If it had been picked up by an eagle or hawk, I would have thought there would have been some sign of injury.
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