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August 2019
Pacific Northwest
The new fountain I built this summer has been drawing in lots of birds who seem to be attracted to burbling. It’s in the shade to reduce algae growth, so pics aren’t very bright, but a nice side effect has been birds hanging out in the fig tree above, staging for fountain visits.
There’s an overlap with birds who have always visited my still birdbaths but new ones too.
Fig tree above is a staging spot for birds coming and going.
The fledglings, especially the wonderfully lively and vocal nuthatches and chickadees, bounce around the yard, with the fountain being one stop. They don’t know this is the first year for the fountain.
Some birds are fine with the still water on one side...
Others prefer where it pours out onto rocks....
I built the fountain to attract warblers, having seen them at a neighbor’s fountain, but so very rarely seeing warblers passing through my yard. It was an exciting day when we saw our first warbler this summer and the very first Wilson’s warbler ever in the yard!
Been watching for them to drink at the fountain. Watching, waiting, watching....
Warblers are yellowish. Might this be one?
I did see a male Wilson’s perched there August 8, but did not have a camera handy.
Yesterday Mr O saw a flash of yellow and grabbed the camera on the off chance. It’s impossible to tell who’s there from across the yard, but after developing the zoomed pics who did we find had been visiting? Yep, a warbler! But a new one maybe: a Yellow warbler? That would be another first ever sighting in the yard.
That’s not all Mr O caught on film that day. A bathing waxwing!
Mostly who we see in the fountain are everyday birds like finches. They drink, bathe, socialize and generally seem to have a good time. I’d call the fountain project a success.
The summer birds will be departing soon — warblers, grosbeaks, waxwings, Rufous hummers — but I’ll keep the fountain going.
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Overcast this morning and breezy from the SE in the PNW islands. Sprinkling off and on. Daytime temps have been running upper 60s these days, nighttime in the 50s.
What’s the nature news in your neighborhood?
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