We have a simple water drip set up near our feeding station. It is
comprised of a 2 gallon jug suspended by a shepherd's hook over a concrete
birdbath basin on the ground. A couple of holes in the jug make for a
nicely timed dripping, and it only needs to be filled twice a day. Simple
but very effective!
We've had a wide variety of birds coming to this since we have had it up
(2012), including some that are usually fairly secretive. The water drip
has been a wonderful improvement to the birding in our yard... I would
encourage everyone to do something like this. We use an electric de-icer to
keep water in winter as well, although of course we must forego the
dripping.
I'm sharing this photo because I thought it was an interesting trio of
birds (and colors) to be at the water together. We commonly have two
species using it at one time, but three species is out of the
norm...especially three that are so strikingly and contrastingly colored!
Please excuse the poor photo quality as it was taken through a closed and
possibly smudgy window.
Yellow-breasted Chat, Summer Tanager, Indigo Bunting
-Shawna Ellis
Paris, Henry County
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