Any ideas for leaving water out for eilds? Needs to b off the ground due to other critters. But shallow enough to prevent drowning. Easy enough to fill . I am thinking like a one inch thick container.
Any ideas for leaving water out for eilds? Needs to b off the ground due to other critters. But shallow enough to prevent drowning. Easy enough to fill . I am thinking like a one inch thick container.
I use concrete bird baths for mine. Every night I dump the water out so the racoons don't get at it and refill first thing in the morning. In the winter I do the same thing with a birdbath heater in place. Another idea - the bottom drip saucer from a large plastic pot - lots of times Home Depot/Lowes type places sell them as two pieces.
I usually put a clean rock in the middle of my bird baths large enough to break the surface of the water. Birds tend to land on the rock to drink - I think it feels safer than hanging their buts over the edge where something can grab it!
Water is super important. I see the squirrels coming in first thing in the morning for their breakfast - we are talking before 5AM - and the first thing they do is get a drink - even before chow! I have lots of water around where I live and I think they deliberately choose my bird baths because the water is always fresh and clean.
I have one of these in the front and back yard:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Made for chickens, but works well for the squirrels. I got tired of washing out, and refilling tupperware dishes.
I thought of the bird baths but not high enough. The water tray from a planter is the direction I was going. Just have to make a platform in the tree. And I make checkTSC for something that may work.
I've posted this before on other posts but this seems to be the right place to repost it again. I bought a low to the ground(for stability) bird bath from Walmart a few yrs ago for maybe 16$. I have a screen mesh on top of it to prevent birds from takings baths.... they will dirty the water and splash most of the water out and you have to clean and refill it many times a day if you want to have something clean for the squirrels to drink. What i have attached to the top is a paint screen... in the paint area of Home Depot... is goes across or hangs down into a 5 gallon bucket to roll or scrap off excess paint. You will need to rebend some of the end prongs to make it fit your bird bath tightly. The squirrels and birds can easily drink but the birds can't take baths so it solves the problem. I usually wire brush it out once a week to remove algae etc and use a stainless fine wire grill(outdoor gas grill) brush to scrub it out. I know this past winter my water was frozen solid for at least 3 months so i have no idea where they got drinking water, but anything i would put out in a bowl would freeze quick. Anyways ... hope this helps on some water ideas.