*Trying* to get all my outdoor winter preparations done before things get *really* like winter.
Laid out the long weed-eater cord, and got it hooked up to my birdbath heater today.
Keeping some water open, when everything freezes up solid, is totally a great thing for birds and birdwatching.
A funky water bowl heater , $16 from the feed store, does the trick.
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Yes, if you have a birdbath, or even just want to make something like this out of a bowl you have laying around, stop and check at the feed store. The heater I have just looks like a funky spiral of heater wire, wrapped in some heavy aluminum foil. While you are there, pick up a 50 lb bag of millet. Really cheap, and you just scatter it around on the ground and particularly under shrubs that give cover.
It doesn't take much to get a thing like this going in the wintertime. The water is really the thing here.