Loons, bald eagles and seals are common sights, and you may even spot a whale offshore.

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In the Gulf in May, with the oil gushing, were loons, gannets, various kinds of herons and terns.

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We fall asleep to the same haunting calls of the loons and the same piney smell of the New Hampshire woods.

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The coyotes and loons tend to drown out other noises up here.

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He has denied calling activists "mad, swivel-eyed loons" and Mr Cameron has sent an email to party members, insisting they still shared a "deep and lasting friendship" with him.

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But closer study suggests that such revenues merely displace funds that would have been raised in some other way: the crumbling schools or endangered loons do not actually get any new money.

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