A Pileated Woodpecker! I've never seen one in person. What a special place you have made for the birds, and our, enjoyment.

@WarblerRidge

13 күн бұрын

Having the Pileated Woodpeckers visit was a real treat! I hear them often in the woods but rarely get a good look at them. Thanks for watching!

What a lovely peaceful place you have. Thanks for the ideas for a natural water hole for the birds

@WarblerRidge

12 күн бұрын

Thank you for watching and I hope there were some ideas you can use.

So awesome. I’m in Australia on the east coast on a little island. We have bird life galore here. Mostly large ones like lorikeets,cockatoo, kookaburra,corellas,and then even bigger ones like ibis forest pheasant and the island is full of curlews. I have a family nesting in my backyard at the moment. They are mainly ground birds but can fly. The curlews mainly are active at night and are quite load when they get going. Visitors find it hard to sleep here sometimes. I never knew how much I love birds until I bought this beautiful island property. Thankyou for some wonderful ideas for water xxx

@WarblerRidge

15 күн бұрын

Your island sounds like a magical place! Thanks for watching and commenting, I appreciate it 🙂

I just found your channel. This video makes me very happy and inspires me. Thank you for sharing!

@WarblerRidge

16 күн бұрын

Aww! That’s really nice to hear. Thank you and welcome to the channel! I post a new video every Sunday morning with new bird video footage from the previous week.

@abbyW

16 күн бұрын

@@WarblerRidge I’m starting from the very beginning, listening (and watching 🤫) while I’m working!

@WarblerRidge

15 күн бұрын

😄👍🤫

Thank you for showing all your experience! I'm expanding my dishes of water and this is sooo helpful.

@WarblerRidge

4 күн бұрын

Glad it was helpful! Good luck with your projects, I’m sure your birds will appreciate it 🙂

Me too I love robins 😁 really enjoying your posts thank you

@WarblerRidge

Ай бұрын

I would be so happy if I could convince some robins to stay for the summer 🙂 Thanks for watching and leaving a comment. It’s always nice to hear from viewers.

@MaryDurica

16 күн бұрын

@@WarblerRidge We have lots of Robins in Sarnia, Ontario Canada. I always know when spring has sprung when I see the first Robin on the ground. I would trade you the Robins for the Bluebirds. lol

Thank you for doing so much for wildlife, especially the birds, my favorite critter. Thank you for filming, your videos are so refreshing.

@WarblerRidge

Ай бұрын

Thank you. The birds are by favorite critters too. Everyone else gets a supporting character roll 😄

Magnificent!

@WarblerRidge

3 күн бұрын

Thank you!

New subscriber and longtime bird friend. Thanks

@WarblerRidge

11 күн бұрын

Hello! Thanks for watching and welcome to the channel!

Very nice projects. If you are looking for more work the water in the large pond might be made to last longer by making a large reservoir and then using a solar pump to circulate the water from the reservoir to the pond with the excess making it's way back to the reservoir. With the large area of the pond and surrounding rocked area the reservoir should fill quickly when it rains. If you wanted to complicate it a bit more a float switch could be added to shut off the pump when the reservoir gets low.

@WarblerRidge

25 күн бұрын

All good ideas, and I know for a lot of people it’s fun to figure things out (and I respect and appreciate that) but I like to keep things simple. And I don’t mind topping off the water every day or two. It’s part of my routine and it provides some nice quiet time in the garden 🙂

Good job! I had a flock of Waxwings visit my birdbath last year and they came back this year, and found the birdbath in the new location. I figured they were migrating because they only came once each time.

@WarblerRidge

9 күн бұрын

Neat! Waxwings are such beautiful birds!

Thanks so much for sharing! I loved seeing all your bird visitors. This is what I want to do at our home. Thanks for the great ideas. Just subscribed!

@WarblerRidge

17 күн бұрын

Thank you and welcome to the channel! Watch for a new Sunday Morning Birds video each week at 6am.

What a beautiful spot you have there, thank you for sharing, subscribed.

@WarblerRidge

4 күн бұрын

Thank you and welcome to the channel!

Thank you! Your ponds and their visitors are a delight. I was concerned when there was no video last Sunday, so was doubly glad to see this.

@WarblerRidge

4 ай бұрын

I started working in this one for last week but these compilation videos with lots of clips take so much longer to put together. I underestimated the time it would take and didn’t get finished in time. I had fun with it, though and glad you enjoyed watching!

@timefortinybirdandfriends6565

3 күн бұрын

I wish more people cared about wildlife. Most seem to only think of their dogs and cats running loose is being a good owner; but in fact, it is pure heck on wild birds and wildlife, particularly nestling birds. Simply selfish irresponsible behavior.

Very cool! Makes me anxious for Spring here in Ohio!!!

@WarblerRidge

4 ай бұрын

Thanks! I’m ready for spring too. But, there’s snow headed our way this week, so I guess I’ll have to wait a bit ❄️☃️😄

The birds obviously like it all. Great work!

@WarblerRidge

4 ай бұрын

Thanks!

You are such an inspiration, I love learning how to make "happy" Places for the birds, thank you !!!

@WarblerRidge

4 ай бұрын

Aww, thank you! That is so nice to hear.

It's awesome! I'm glad you finally got your robins. I usually have robins in my front yard, with no feeders or anything. I saw my first robin under my feeders a month or two ago. It wasn't there for the seed, but I'm glad I saw it. I want to do a water feature now. 🙂 Thanks for this video!!

@WarblerRidge

4 ай бұрын

You should definitely do a water feature! Even a tiny one makes a bid difference. And I’m jealous of your robins 🙂 I think my soil is just too rocky for them. Makes it difficult for them to dig up worms

I’m just dying over this!!!! It’s wonderful. I’m going to build one.

@WarblerRidge

Ай бұрын

You should! Your birds will be grateful 🙂

Inspiring!

Very fun to see the BTS!

@WarblerRidge

4 ай бұрын

Okay, I’m stumped! BTS?

Great video. Love the little streams you've created! I have plans to do the same after just providing a small, circular feature with a shallow terra cotta dish, some flat rocks and a small pump last year. I was able to attract over 30 species. Where do you source all of your stone--especially the larger ones?

@WarblerRidge

2 ай бұрын

It’s amazing how many different birds are attracted to water! Good luck with your new project. I’m sure your birds will love it. My property here in Tennessee is on a rocky hillside, so there are rocks everywhere I look. I just gather up what I need for projects. I do buy bags of river pebbles at Lowes to use in the beds of the pools. You might try asking at a local garden center about stones. Or you could use a more readily available alternative like logs, bricks, or pavers as edging. I’ve started using logs and large branches on the edges of my water features so the tree clinging birds like woodpeckers and nuthatches have something to hold onto.

@cc63

2 ай бұрын

@@WarblerRidgeThanks. It is amazing what running water can attract. I'm in Western New York. I'd like to do something that looks as natural as possible. Do you have to clean these often? I find that my little "fountain" gets a lot of algae growth, though it is in midday sun.

@WarblerRidge

2 ай бұрын

@@cc63 The “puddle” project gets algae in the summer. It’s in full sun with no moving water, so not much I can do about that one. But the other two water features stay pretty clear. The “bird pond” is my oldest water feature and it is set up like a fish pond with no fish. There’s a small open water reservoir beyond the bird bathing areas that holds the pump. This pump is in a filter box and the water is pumped up to a waterfall filter than has biological and mechanical filtration. I clean the filters once a year in the spring. The newer woodland stream and the mini pond have filtration based on bog or wetland filters used in fish ponds. The pump is housed in a container that is buried under a bed of stones. Over time, the stone bed gets filled with organisms that clean the water. These were a bit of an experiment for me but they’ve been working really well. All of my water features get some fresh water added pretty much daily, and when I do that, I use the spray from the garden hose to stir up and rinse out the gravel layers where the birds bathe.

@cc63

2 ай бұрын

@@WarblerRidgeThanks for the info!

You've inspired me to build a mini pond in my yard, thank you! Do I need to worry about the pump freezing?

@WarblerRidge

2 ай бұрын

It depends on where you live. If your winters are long and cold, you might want to remove the pump in the winter. I would worry that pressure from the ice could crack the pump. In my part of Tennessee, the water in my bird ponds only freezes solid a few times a year, so just unplug the pump during cold spells and start it back up when it warms up. For me, the biggest problem is making sure the ponds don’t run dry during the warm season. I killed a pump that way one year. Between evaporation and birds splashing water out of the pools, I have to top everything off with a gallon or two every day. Good luck with your pond! They’re a lot of fun to build and I’m sure your birds will love it.

@versace.mitch69

2 ай бұрын

That is some great advice. Thank you so much for sharing and for the good luck, I'm excited to see it come to fruition!@@WarblerRidge

@FartherTogether

5 күн бұрын

This is all so inspiring! I'm in awe of all the amazing birds. Those warblers--wow! Thank you for the great footage and the labeling. I'm learning so much. I love how naturalistic the stone formations are. Where are you located? I'm going to share with my local native gardening group and FB group in S-central PA. Saw a Cape May warbler today (May 10) and hoping there might be more variety nearby. Thank you!

@WarblerRidge

5 күн бұрын

@@FartherTogether Thank you! Inspiring is good! There’s so much we can do to help the birds and other wildlife around us. Even small things make a big difference over time. I’m located on a wooded hillside in the eastern portion of Tennessee. North of Knoxville and near Norris Lake (one of the big TVA flood control/power generation reservoirs). Thank you for sharing the videos. I appreciate that and very much like the idea of being a part of the larger community of native gardening and backyard habitat folks out there.

@WarblerRidge

5 күн бұрын

@@FartherTogether oh, and congratulations on the Cape May Warbler! It’s been a slow spring for warblers here. We’ve had some nasty storm front that I think are either slowing them down or sending them in a different direction. But the Merlin app thought it heard a Black-throated Green this morning, so there may still be more coming through.

so this pond did you use the same pump as your smaller pond and where do you get this underlay before you add the liner? Did you add more rocks?

@WarblerRidge

16 күн бұрын

I used a larger, 95 gallon per minute (gpm) pump. I ordered the underlayment material from Amazon. I think you could also find it anywhere that sells fish pond supplies. And this is a larger water feature, so it did require more rocks. Thanks for watching!

Looks great but my neighbours feed stray cats and they would kill all birds trying to take a bath.🤬

@WarblerRidge

5 күн бұрын

I’m so sorry. That stinks. But you’re right, something at ground level like this is not a good option if there are a lot of cats around.