Keeping Your Birds Safe when Drinking and Bathing
Keeping your birds safe when drinking and bathing
Here are a few tips how you can keep the bathing birds a little safer. Put the birdbath near trees, bushes and shrubs, to make it harder for crows, falcons, and hawks to attack from above. If there are cats around, you can put the birdbath next to thorny, prickly shrubs and bushes like roses, raspberries, and currents. Using a birdbath standing on a pedestal instead of in the ground, might also give some more protection for the birds.
Be careful with barrels or troughs that are filled with water. Sometimes during very hot and dry summer months, the birds will try drinking from them, and can tragically fall in and drown. Many, many birds die that way every year. Always try to keep these containers covered. If this is not possible, put a floating branch or wood plank that the thirsty birds can land on and drink from. By doing this the birds can escape immediate danger.
