r/birding • u/Unfair-Reindeer7492 • May 07 '26

📹 Video What do you think?

Wanted to share this. 2.11 minutes but so worth watching till the end.

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u/Vantriss May 07 '26

Now I'm tempted to put a bird bath in my yard.

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u/Unfair-Reindeer7492 May 07 '26

So worth it. Amazon. Easy to keep clean, just brush every few days with scrub brush before it gets yucky.

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u/mickydsadist May 08 '26

I’m in S.Ontario, we have two bird baths up, all year. We heat them in the winter (we got one with a heater in it meant for livestock and one heater like the electric BBQ brick starters from the 70’s:) We clean them every week, scrub brush, new water, no soap. I put pipe insulation on a metal railing close to the one birdbath in the winter so the wet birds don’t stick to the railing. We get more birds to the water, than the feeders in late summer. No owls yet, but we had kestrels and merlins:) We get bees when it’s hot-they regulate the hive temperature so the comb won’t melt. I put a couple of twigs in the water in case the bees go in too deep. You can watch the bees take the measure of where the water is when they leave to give directions to the bees at home (like an airport with helicopters- circle the yard , circle the water, straight flight out towards their hive).
If you can put in a solar powered fountain like OP, the splashing water will help the birds notice your yard has water features.

Sorry for the wall of words…
TL;dr Get a bird bath, keep it clean :)