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Rocky Mountain Spring BathThe Ground-level Bath for Summer, Fall, Winter, and Springby Michael and Diane Porter We've used this birdbath at Birdwatching Dot Com for years and years. For most of the year, the copper-tube dripper is its attraction. A slow drip into the bath brings in birds that we could never attract with bird feeders.
When the weather is below freezing, the dripper doesn't drip, but the birds still use it as a perch. And no matter how cold the weather gets, the birds still have water! Here's a blue jay visiting the Rocky Mountain Bath in winter, when the snow has piled up all around it. You can see where other birds have left their tracks in the snow.
Unfrozen water is a great help to birds in winter. It takes a lot of heat energy to melt snow, and the birds save that energy if they can find unfrozen water. The Rocky Mountain Spring's heater looks sort of like an ordinary heating pad. It's attached to the underside of the birdbath. It requires electric current. You run a cord that is rated for outdoor use and plug it into a plug that is under the bath. (There's room under the bath, because it's molded fiberglass. If you turn it upside down, it would still hold water, like a plastic dog dish.) We find that this bath makes our yard attractive to birds in winter as well as summer. The first year, we brought the thin black rubber tube indoors, but since they we just leave it out. Freezing doesn't bother it, and when spring comes, the dripper is back in business. This is a good birdbath, and we recommend it.
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