Easy, easy bird bath to make. Trust me.

[Lex]

I had a thread earlier about filling up your bird baths if you have them, and if you live in an area where it's been so darn dry lately.

If you want to make your own bird bath, just do this (you can paint them if you want). Or leave it plain terra cotta:

1. Large terra cotta saucer that normally goes underneath a terra cotta pot.
2. A terra cotta pot to serve as the base.

Like this:



:hi:

[havocmom]

1. Had a neighbor who just set out a large pasta bowl with a rock in the middle

The birds LOVED it and one cactus wren was pretty direct about when the water needed to be freshened after a few friends were done with their baths. He would land on the outside window sill near where my neighbor worked at his computer. That brazen bird would tap on the window, then do the 'more water please, cabana boy' dance. It was really something.

Any stable, shallow container of decent diameter does wonders.

I know some grounds-keeper types who made some shallow depressions in the desert around some of the golf course resorts, lined them with concrete, then sorta misdirected some of the small drip irrigation hoses.... They figured if the resorts could afford to keep all that grass green in Tucson, they could spare a few gallons a week for the native wildlife. ;)

[davsand]

2. What a cute idea!

You can't laugh, but we used to keep a chicken watering trough out with water for the birds. It was shallow, and wide and those birds would literally climb in and go for a swim. Funniest thing you ever saw when a couple of them would get in at the same time!


Laura

[Fawkes]

3. question

Will the birds still like it if the water gets hot (in 110 degree weather) while I'm at work all day?

[Kali]

4. evaporation will keep the water a little cooler and the terra cotta

will add to the effect. In the old days people kept a big clay pot (olla) hanging in the shade to cool the days drinking water.

[Heidi]

5. Great idea, Lex!

:hi: :hug: