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Bird Baths Simply Do Attract More Birds
Sure, bird feeders attract wild birds, as do birdhouses. But unless you’ve added a fresh water source like a bird bath to your little habitat…you don’t know what you’re missing!Fresh water attracts more song birds, as some may not ever frequent a feeder. Add a bath accessory to create moving water, like a dripper or water wiggler, and you’ve just created an absolute bird magnet!
Bird Baths are available in every possible shape, size, and color imaginable. The fiberglass or resin models, resist molding and scale build-up unlike their concrete cousins. The light-weight factor makes them a breeze to clean as well. Many of these bird baths come with hollow pedestals to allow for filling with rocks or sand. This helps to stabilize the bath, and make it more sturdy.
Fresh water in freezing winter months is critical to wild birds. They do not eat snow, and require fresh water for preening feathers. Dirty feathers just don’t fly right!
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Add Moving Water to Your Bird Bath
A great way to attract more species of wild birds is to have a fresh water source. An even better attractor is moving water! Adding a fountain or dripper to your bird bath will greatly increase the number and species of feathered friend visitors. It’s a known fact that moving water is like a visual magnet to wild birds. There are lots of options available to create moving water in a birdbath. You can even make your own dripper from a simple plastic milk jug (with a tiny hole) hung above the bath.
Whether a dripper, bird bath fountain, water wiggler, or mister, birds will flock to a water source in action. The other great advantage is that mosquitos can not lay eggs in moving water. Thus reducing their population and the liklihood of spreading the west nile virus. Also, bird baths will stay cleaner longer when using some type of agitation or aeration in them.
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Add a Dripper to a Mosaic Bird Bath
Moving water will entice and attract more wild birds to your yard!
These days, several reasonably priced items that create moving water are available for you to add to a birdbath. We have an old mosaic bird bath that has a copper dripper in it, and birds flock to it! Hummingbirds can be seen bathing under the “drips” when larger birds aren’t around.
Other easy ways of adding moving include water wigglers and leaf misters. Butterflies and warblers enjoy the fine mist, and are seen daily at our two misters.
The misters are versatile and can be used in a birdbath, staked in the ground, or hung from the deck or front porch, like we use ours. Add moving water to your habitat and watch the tremendous increase in wild bird species and their numbers. Another advantage of having moving water in your bird bath is that mosquitoes can not lay their eggs…just can’t happen in moving water.
So now you’ve seen some moving water in our own yard, maybe that’s why bird food must be rationed…they eat us out of house and home! Hope you’ve gotten some aquatic ideas for your feathered friends too, they’ll surely appreciate it!
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Sure, bird feeders attract wild birds, as do birdhouses. But unless you’ve added a fresh water source like a bird bath to your little habitat…you don’t know what you’re missing!
