I use planter bases the same way! Birds as well as squirrels, chipmunks, possum, skunks, raccoons and red fox use them... in better weather, lol. There's a heated bowl for current weather.
@wasityou Yes, we get squirrels, they often dig up the bulbs we plant in the tub! We could o with a heated bowl, we recently saw a blackbird pecking its beak on the iced over water.
@Nelladell Never thought of that! The pond did get covered in a type of algae a few years ago and the pond has been dredged. It's not very deep but the duck population seem happy enough on it most of the time.
