Make an Easy and Elegant Birdbath
by Kathy Wilson

Description: How to attract more birds to your yard by making your own birdbath.
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Bringing birds to your garden is one of the great joys of any gardener. Aside from providing food, providing water is a must in creating a wildlife friendly garden. Here is a quick and easy birdbath that looks elegant and can be made from items you already own or can easily get from your local garden center.

Supplies

• Tall pot or urn, or even a piece of large pipe
• A large saucer
• Silicone glue, if desired
• Several rough stones

Place your pot or urn in the desired place for your birdbath, depending on the shape of the vessel, you might wish to turn it upside down. I filled mine with rocks to give it weight and prevent it from blowing over in the wind.

Place the saucer on top of the pot, glue with silicone to keep in place if desired.

Place rough stones in saucer to give birds a foothold, then fill saucer with water.

Plant around the base of the birdbath to soften and add a natural effect. Use low growing plants.

Hint: Place your birdbath in an open area such as a lawn. Birds prefer to be able to view the area for enemies, and will use your bath more often if they are not tucked back where a predator can hide. (Helps you to chase off those neighborhood predators as well!)

Kathy Wilson is a home and garden writer, author and consultant and is the home decorating expert for LifetimeTV.com. Visit her for more home and garden ideas at http://www.TheGardenGlove.com and http://www.TheBudgetDecorator.com. Also visit her at http://www.Women-on-the-Net.com where any woman can learn to make money on the internet!

Reader comment: I have used a large metal garbage can lid, upside down and a 1/2 brick placed in the center. The water is about 1 - 1 1/2" deep and the space around the brick gives the birds plenty of room to 'splash, and bathe without hitting the rocks' as in the one pictured in the article. Also birds can perch on the edge and get drinks of water easily. For want of somethng sturdy to set the lid on, I use one of the colorful plastic crates we all seem to have several of. It is easy to empty the water out of the lid when it becomes dirty (and it does as the birds get really dusty) & needs changing. I have used this method for over 20 years. I always have a 'gaggle' of birds in my back yard as I also have a lid attached to a tree that was cut off about 3 feet high. The tree was dead but still serves our feathered friends. Cats can't seem to manage getting around the wide slick metal edge of the feeder...Alma

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