Our fountain in the back yard adjacent to our small pond has been out of commission all winter, and we just started it up yesterday afternoon. I'm trying to keep tabs on who visits it, and during the day it furnished drinks and baths for a pair of American Robins, a Steller's Jay, and a pair of Black-capped Chickadees (I wondered if any of them thought "whoa, where did this come from?"), and it finally proved its worth by attracting an Orange-crowned Warbler out of the shrubbery this afternoon. A running fountain that produces a trickling sound that can be heard for some distance is a migrant magnet.

Dennis Paulson
Seattle