If it's dry, dry, dry outside, please fill up your bird baths!

[Lex]

It's dry in my neck of the woods, and I went out to water a few plants, just to keep them alive until we get some rain in the next day or so.

While doing that, a robin hopped over and looked at me watering the tomato and basil plants.

Then I remembered! I walked over and filled up the birdbaths in the front and back yard and instantly had birds started swooping in to drink and sit in it and ruffle their feathers around in it. I stood at the kitchen window and watched them take turns in the "pool."


Oh and if you don't have a birdbath, just a shallow pan or plate of water right now will help them!


:hi:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Good thought, my dear Lex...

No birdbaths here...

But there is a big park about a mile or so from here, with a pretty good-sized lake in it...

My next-door neighbor has a pool...

Wonder if the birds drink out of it?

Thanks for the tip!

:hi:

[skygazer]

2. Birds, cats, raccoons and deer all use my birdbath

I clean and fill it almost daily. Good PSA. :hi:

[Fawkes]

3. sprinklers

I know it's probably considered "wasting" water but I've been turning a garden sprinkler in my backyard on low from mid-afternoon to early evening in Redding, California, where the temperature has been over 110 degrees for the past several days (may be a few degrees cooler today, but it's still very hot). Many, many birds (primarily finches and titmice) have been cooling themselves in the water. It's fun to watch them and it makes me feel good to help them feel better.

[XemaSab]

4. Blasphemy!

Go back to freepers, ya titmouse-loving troll! :P

[Fawkes]

8. ??????

Have you no respect? Have you, at long last, no respect?

Besides, I don't think the freepers would have me.

[trof]

6. You need the STEP-ON BIRD SHOWER.

Turns on when the bird lands on the pressure plate.
Off when they fly away.

[Fawkes]

9. Step-on bird shower

I did a google search. Couldn't find any such product.

[LeftyMom]

5. Change the water a lot

Or you'll have one heck of a mosquito hatchery in no time.

[Lex]

7. It dries out pretty quickly in this weather.

But if it has water in it already I spray it out and refill it.

[havocmom]

10. Wash and refill at least once a day too.

Make some puddles that will allow birds a drink but dry up before bugs (mosquitoes & bacteria which can spread bird illness) can become a hazard. A sprinkler on fine spray or a mister will make birds happy too.

[Robbien]

11. Hmmmm

http://imgred.com/

So true about the bird baths. Normally our bird water treys have plenty of water in them at the end of the day, but these last couple of days they have been emptied out by noon with all the drinking and bathing going on.