Hi, We went back to Little Mountain to cover some areas to the south of where we were Wednesday. Our procedure is to find a likely spot to set up the 6m mist net, then set the decoy and speaker close to the middle of the net. We then retreat 10 to15 m. We play a recording to attract male territorial Juncos to the decoy. It is our experience that if we are in a good spot it takes less than 5 minutes before we have a male or multiple males fussing in the area they eventually get worked up enough to fly at the decoy and get caught so we can band them. Or first location was per the normal routine. We had a response within 3 minutes and then an unbanded bird in the net. Extracting the bird from the net Holdon Biologist Mike Watson lost his purchase on the little bird and it escaped. We tired again but now even though we had 2 birds in the vicinity and countersinging, none would fly at the decoy. After about 15 minutes we decided to move about 50m south and see if we could attract different birds. This set up attracted a bird from the north, which may have been the same one who got away earlier. After checking out the decoy he continued to countersing but went to the ground and began foraging and generally acting unconcerned. We gave up and moved ~150m North. Got a little countersinging but no one came to the area other than for a quick looky loo. We moved North again. Almost to the area we had covered Wednesday. Again we quickly attracted a bird but he was not agitated and after a bit of countersinging and looking at the decoy went to the ground and began to forage. We gave up. Since we had good success in the first location we went back there as it was now 2 hours later. We attracted a bird who was countersinging the Nashville Warbler like song. This song is something I have documented previously in our local Juncos and got video of this back in 2016. Again the bird went to the ground and began foraging. As an experiment I got myself positioned so the bird was between the net and me. Once I got to flush distance the bird adeptly flew up and outside and around the support pole of the net. Indicating he knew exactly where the net was located. While we had good success earlier in the week.it would seem the Juncos on Little Mountain are onto our tactics. Today's score Juncos - 4, Scientists - 0. Also of note when we got back to the cars we heard another Junco doing the Nashville Warbler like song. These locations are deep in the woods and well away from any Chipping Sparrows. Haans ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Please consider joining our Society, at www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: listserv.miamioh.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]