Inspiration & Guides

The number printed on a fountain pump box is measured with the outlet at the same height as the water. Your fountain is not built that way, and every inch...

A bird bath works by concentrating birds in one predictable spot, which from a cat point of view is a schedule. The national number, the two published placement distances and...

Every guide says change the water. None of them say what to change it to. Softened water clears the only published avian sodium guideline in most homes that own a...

A fountain outdoors is a bird bath whether you meant it to be one or not. We checked what the bird safety claim on fountain algaecide actually rests on, what...

We sell concrete. The Cornell Lab says traditional concrete bird baths are not the best type for birds, and its own guide tells buyers to choose plastic instead. Here is...

Water leaves a fountain by four routes and only one of them is a leak. Running the pump can nearly double how fast it goes, a bucket settles whether anything...

No agency and no university has ever published guidance on winterizing a cast concrete fountain. Every rule in circulation comes from a manufacturer, and the manufacturers contradict each other on...

The concrete side of this is a solved problem with federal manuals behind it, and almost every home repair guide gets the geometry backwards. The bird side, whether the patch...

A songbird that lets you walk up to it is the signal. Five agencies give five different shutdown periods, so here they are side by side rather than averaged into...

Cornell says keeping a bath ice-free in winter is not critical. Audubon recommends a heater. Both are worth reading. Then there is the part with no disagreement at all: nothing...

A bird bath nobody visits is one of six things, and they are not equally likely. Depth is the cause more often than everything else combined. Here are the checks...

Mosquitoes need 7 to 10 days to go from egg to flying adult. Empty the bath before then and nothing finishes. Here is the schedule that beats the clock, what...