This afternoon I combined cleaning nest boxes with some birding along the Little Walnut Creek. For the second day in a row I encountered red fox, but no Fox Sparrows. The individual I observed today behaved as if it were playing, although my guess is that it was trying to root out a deer mouse. It was a handsome specimen with rich color and a bushy tail that an airport could use as a wind vane. The birds were slow but there were some flourishes with mainly yellow-rumped warblers. Mixed in were a few Tennessee, Nashville and Blackpoll Warblers, ruby-crowned kinglets and blue-headed vireos. Charlie Bombaci ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com ______________________________________________________________________ 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]