Comments on: How to Provide Water for Birds When the Birdbath Freezes http://www.ecosystemgardening.com/how-to-provide-water-for-birds-when-the-birdbath-freezes.html Create Wildlife Habitat. Protect the Environment Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:16:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Chickadees in the Wildlife Garden http://www.ecosystemgardening.com/how-to-provide-water-for-birds-when-the-birdbath-freezes.html/comment-page-1#comment-3240 Chickadees in the Wildlife Garden Mon, 24 May 2010 11:31:37 +0000 http://www.conservationgardening.com/?p=1177#comment-3240 [...] Water is one of the main elements for attracting Chickadees to your wildlife habitat garden. As you can see in the photo above, they are very creative in how they obtain water. This one learned to drink from the antwell in my hummingbird feeder. Water in winter is especially important. [...] [...] Water is one of the main elements for attracting Chickadees to your wildlife habitat garden. As you can see in the photo above, they are very creative in how they obtain water. This one learned to drink from the antwell in my hummingbird feeder. Water in winter is especially important. [...]

]]> By: Carole Brown http://www.ecosystemgardening.com/how-to-provide-water-for-birds-when-the-birdbath-freezes.html/comment-page-1#comment-655 Carole Brown Wed, 23 Dec 2009 01:57:34 +0000 http://www.conservationgardening.com/?p=1177#comment-655 Duncraft: thanks for sharing such valuable knowledge! I actually did not know that's why the heater cords were so short. I set the heated dog dish right on top of the birdbath which I run a cord out to. Elizabeth: you are lucky to live where a recirculating pump works through the winter! Alison: Now is definitely the time to plan your Ecosystem Garden. I love this time of year as I sit with the catalogs and my garden map spread out in front of me trying to fit more plants in. Have fun! Duncraft: thanks for sharing such valuable knowledge! I actually did not know that’s why the heater cords were so short. I set the heated dog dish right on top of the birdbath which I run a cord out to.

Elizabeth: you are lucky to live where a recirculating pump works through the winter!

Alison: Now is definitely the time to plan your Ecosystem Garden. I love this time of year as I sit with the catalogs and my garden map spread out in front of me trying to fit more plants in. Have fun!

]]> By: Elizabeth @the Natural Capital http://www.ecosystemgardening.com/how-to-provide-water-for-birds-when-the-birdbath-freezes.html/comment-page-1#comment-654 Elizabeth @the Natural Capital Fri, 18 Dec 2009 20:03:20 +0000 http://www.conservationgardening.com/?p=1177#comment-654 We have a pond with a recirculating pump feeding a little waterfall. There's always some liquid water at that end of the pond...not sure if this would work in much colder climes, but here in DC it does the trick. .-= Elizabeth @the Natural Capital´s last post ..<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheNaturalCapital/~3/azrsG4XHMKA/natural-places-in-dc-area-to-take-your.html" rel="nofollow">Natural Places in the DC Area To Take Your Out-of-Town Visitors</a> =-. We have a pond with a recirculating pump feeding a little waterfall. There’s always some liquid water at that end of the pond…not sure if this would work in much colder climes, but here in DC it does the trick.
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]]> By: Duncraft http://www.ecosystemgardening.com/how-to-provide-water-for-birds-when-the-birdbath-freezes.html/comment-page-1#comment-652 Duncraft Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:00:49 +0000 http://www.conservationgardening.com/?p=1177#comment-652 Well, heated bird baths and bird bath heaters have very short cords and are meant to be used with a customer-supplied, outdoor rated extension cord. So, you could have the ext. cord as long as you needed it to be. The reason for the short cord on the bath is so the connection between it and your extension will be above the snow-line, and won't short-out from exposure to water. Heated dog bowls would be fine too, (I use one for my chickens) as long as there aren't cats around. Cats love to ambush ground-feeding and ground-level bathing birds. We sell the solar sipper and it's fine if you have a very sunny place to put it during the day and take it in at night. It doesn't work well in shady yards or if it's left out to freeze up at night. Well, heated bird baths and bird bath heaters have very short cords and are meant to be used with a customer-supplied, outdoor rated extension cord. So, you could have the ext. cord as long as you needed it to be. The reason for the short cord on the bath is so the connection between it and your extension will be above the snow-line, and won’t short-out from exposure to water. Heated dog bowls would be fine too, (I use one for my chickens) as long as there aren’t cats around. Cats love to ambush ground-feeding and ground-level bathing birds. We sell the solar sipper and it’s fine if you have a very sunny place to put it during the day and take it in at night. It doesn’t work well in shady yards or if it’s left out to freeze up at night.

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