If an upside-down suet feeder is a luxury in your backyard then a heated birdbath is a must. This has been a very cold snowy winter. When it's below freezing, birds can have a hard time finding water.
A simple heated bath will attract a wide range of visitors. The water isn't heated as much as a pool at a Myrtle Beach motel, just warm enough to keep it from turning to ice. Peanut's Woodstock skates on his frozen birdbath, but most birds do not.
In half an hour one morning, while I was having my early coffee, there was a continuous flow of passerines—goldfinches, chickadees, titmice, nuthatches, bluebirds, robins, both house and purple finches, and a hermit thrush—at my bath, wanting a drink, or in the case of the wren, a splashy dunk.
Notice the goldfinch is starting to get his breeding plumage. A sure sign that spring is on the way.
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