Hello all, This evening our dog chased a raccoon up a tree just beginning to leaf out. I noticed a small bird flitting around it and it turned out to be a tufted titmouse. As I watched it grabbed at the coons tail. I thought it was catching insects but my wife said that she had just read that they pull fur for their nest. As we watched for about ten minutes the titmouse at times actually landed on the coon which had curled up and looked very dejected. I could see a large tuft of fur in the titmouses beak before it finally flew away. Dave Smith Station 15 Harrison Cty ______________________________________________________________________ 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]