Carolina Wild Photo (the blog)

Yep, that’s what I said, a “heated” birdbath. It’s really not that fancy, but it was designed specifically for bird photography, like the Bluebird image here.

The heating comes from an aquarium heater unit placed in the birdbath reservoir next to the fountain pump that continually circulates the water. It hardly makes it a “spa”, but it does keep the water from freezing in the winter. So far it has worked at least down to 5 degrees overnight, and even when it’s below freezing continually, every day for over two weeks in a row, with snow and sleet.
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