This good news came from Evelyn a few minutes ago:

Hi Jane!!

We don’t know what happened but we just heard the family calling out by the island, and grabbed the binos… and Praise the Lord, both chicks are together there with the family!!!

We won’t speculate… we’ll just celebrate!!!

Thanks to everyone!!!

Blessings, Evelyn

We also had a comment (below) from Bob Kimball, who lives in the area where the accident happened. Apparently whoever had the experience with the loons was able to release the bird from the fish line. We'd like to thank whoever it was and know "the rest of the story" - it was probably pretty traumatic for the fishermen, too. Whatever they did was the right thing apparently, and the loons are back together. A happy ending to a very tense situation.

I just spoke to Evelyn on the phone and we are all very happy that fisherman knew what to do and immediately took action to free the loon. Like Evelyn says, he's a real hero. We aren't sure exactly when everything took place, but this afternoon the Richers heard the loons calling and when they looked out, they could see four of them and were able to verify it was the family. Bob Kimball said he saw them on Monday, and everything seemed ok. Ray and Evelyn said the loons seemed to be reuniting and since there was nothing else around to disturb them at the time, they believe the family was reuniting. We'd all really like to know details, but it may have to be enough just to know everything turned out ok.

Again, we thank everyone who keeps an eye out, Bob for reporting in, and especially the unsuspecting fisherman who probably had no idea the fish he caught was destined to be the loon's lunch and cause such a ruckus.