<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Hi all,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">The Red Fox Sparrow didn't show up this morning (Thursday the 9th) </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">There is a lot of self-recrimination on my part for thinking I could fix the leak that had developed (first in twelve years) in the creek. Dan Reiff, who is kind of an expert on bird- thought after spending a multitude of hours watching Owls at night, is the only other birder besides Delia and me to have seen the creek right before and right after I embarked on the fix, and may have some insights as to why our neighborhood birds and most sadly, El Rojito, have almost entirely deserted us.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Best wishes,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Ed Newbold (and Delia Scholes)</div></div></body></html>