Hello, This morning I was talking on the phone from my apartment in Hilliard with a life insurance salesman, trying to figure out the best way to insure my wife and 18-month-old son in case I croak. That guy still has no idea why, in the middle of the conversation, I suddenly became profoundly inattentive to his questions and comments!! :) He wouldn't understand why an Orange-crowned Warbler just outside your window would be such a distraction, so I just tried to listen with half my brain and watch the bird with the other half (it didn't work!). Anyways, the bird won my attention...the guy gave up and said he'd call back later. So in the middle of this winter snowstorm, a beautiful little Orange-crowned Warbler alit in a pine tree just 10 feet from my window and was quite perky in scouring the tree for food. I got excellent looks at her (I think it was a 1st winter female Taiga form, based on Sibley, but with a little more yellow. The head was definitely much grayer than the rest of the body, which I'm not used to from the O-c Warblers I used to see in Utah, where I've lived up until 6 months ago). It definitely had NO SIGN of any wingbars, it had a pale supercilium, yellowish underparts faintly streaked with olive on the breast, and bright yellow undertail coverts. No white in the tail either, and she was very cooperative in showing me that in many acrobatic poses! I took a bunch of pictures which show her fairly well considering the falling snow, the intervening window, and my mere 10x optical zoom on my Canon Powershot S1IS digital camera. I don't know the best way to post these, so if you want to see them, just let me know and I'll email them to you. The bird eventually moved on after feeding for about 20 minutes in the same tree, so I'm not sure what the chances are of finding it again, but I'm happy to give directions to anyone who wants to try. Sincerely, Nate Nye Hilliard, OH ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]