Subject: [Tweeters] Black-headed Grosbeak
Date: Fri Aug 30 12:38:44 PDT 2024
From: Jim Betz via Tweeters - tweeters at u.washington.edu
Jeff,
You do not mention a fountain. As soon as we added a fountain to our
backyard - everything
changed. And especially so for those mid-sized birds such as Grosbeaks,
Waxwings, Towhees,
and even the Robins and Stellar's. Our fountain is a 3.5 foot tall
"rectangular stone column"
sitting on a large water reservoir that is self-repleneshing. We have
the pump on a Casa
switch that can be turned on/off or even programmed from my phone
(literally from anywhere
in the world). The end result is that the bubbling (not spouting) water
is always there when
the birds are around (programmed for sunrise to sunset) - and it is rare
for there to be even
ten minutes without a bird on it.
The birds may come-for-the-feeder but they return-for-the-water
... *G* - Jim