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Happy New Year, Karma and Birdbath Ideas
The Birdhouse Chick would like to wish everyone a very happy and healthy New Year filled with many blessings! We hope to involve more folks in the great hobby of backyard birding through our unique and innovative products, most of which are just plain fun! Okay, that’s the happy new year part.
Karma: It’s been a wonderful year for our company, amazing growth and best of all, lots of repeat customers and referrals. Especially the Christmas Season, we saw numerous very lucky birds and squirrels through the many birdhouses, feeders and accessories that were shipped for gifts. Now most of this is due to great customer service and a strong work ethic, but I think karma may have also has played a role here. Our own birds: eat better than us! And donations: a great many were generously given. Both monetary and physical, in the form of birdhouses and bird feeders for auctions and raffles.
One in particular, and we commend the The Girl Scout Troop #1014 of Riverside CA., was sent a great beginner’s birding package. There were birdhouse kits, a book for bird food recipes, actual materials and printouts for offering nesting materials to encourage birds to take up residence, and some ideas for creating an inexpensive birdbath. An easy ground bath, plus ideas for a hanging birdbath with a home made dripper to entice more birds.
It made us really happy to help this group with a donation of birding supplies. And bravo to the adults who are getting children outside and involved with nature! Teaching about stewardship of our environment is critical for the next generation.
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Add a Birdbath for Wildlife Friendly Habitat
Our North Georgia yard is always fluttering with avian activity. Probably due to the many bird feeders and birdhouses, but positively because of the birdbaths and water features. For the last 30 days or so I think it has rained only once. Pastures and lawns are parched, and flowers that usually thrive well into fall have seen better days.Two pedestal baths each have their own gizmo so there’s always moving water. One has a dripper, the other a water wiggler. Since this water always moves, it is a major attractor for birds, it works like a visual magnet! It’s also good to know that mosquitoes can not lay their eggs in these birdbaths.
This ground birdbath with an attached dripper has got to be by far the most popular spot. Of course everyone took off when I went to take the picture. There’s also a leaf mister staked in the ground nearby, which shares the same water connection via a T-connector in the rubber tubing. Butterflies, hummingbirds and most of the regulars frequent this spot daily. Some birds even crowd around to wait their turn for a dip in this great birdbath!
The landscaping helps too, lush and mature trees, shrubs and flowers, with perennials for butterflies like lantana, milkweed, and butterfly bush. A shepherd’s hook with three bird feeders is also close to this water feature. I guess if I were a bird, it would be a pretty decent spot to hang around!
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Add Moving Water to Your Birdbath and Watch the Show!
Fresh water in a birdbath is by far one of the best ways to entice song birds to your yard. Even those who may not use birdhouses or feeders will usually stop by for a sip or dip! You can count on this, be it extreme summer heat…or frigid winter months, a birdbath is a necessity if you’re trying to attract wild birds to your yard.Adding accessories like birdbath drippers, water wigglers or misters works like a visual magnet to birds, the difference is amazing. Moving water attracts birds like you wouldn’t believe! The added benefits are no stagnant water and the water stays cleaner longer. Also, nasty mosquitoes can not lay eggs in moving water.
In our birdbaths at home, you’ll find two water wigglers and two drippers…our birds love them and we’d never go back to standing water.
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