When we downsized from our three bedroom home to a two bedroom ground floor apartment we found ourselves with french windows opening onto a small patio. The view beyond is of a recreation park. The first thing we got was a bird-bath. In fact, being cheapskates we made do with a terracotta plant-pot base plate from B & Q, £4. It has served its purpose well. The joy given watching the birds having a bath, robins, blackbirds, sparrows, and more. Sometimes, strangely, the local ducks from a pond over 50 yards away like to waddle up in a little group and take a drink.
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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.
