How can you prevent birds from drowning in rain barrels?
A young blackbird drowned in a rain barrel that was about 1.5 m high and filled with water to a depth of about 80 cm.
How can you prevent birds and other animals from drowning in rain barrels?
I've now emptied the barrels, poured out the water, and poured the rest into a barrel so that the water is up to the brim. I've placed a wide, rough board over the water. Birds can land and drink there, and if a bird falls into the water, it can easily escape onto the board. Can birds like blackbirds, tits, finches, sparrows, etc., actually swim short distances?
But the board over the barrel isn't a permanent solution. I also need water for watering, and when it's hot, water evaporates, so the barrel isn't full anymore.
Is it enough to place a rough board or a large branch at an angle against a half-full barrel?
Or would it be better to place a piece of board horizontally on the water as a raft? If so, how big should the raft be?
If the barrel is almost completely empty, I can place a stone or two or three stones stacked on top of each other (bricks, etc.) at the bottom, reaching just above the water surface. Then a bird or insect that has fallen into the water can take refuge on it and fly out. Can birds even fly out if the inner diameter of a barrel is, say, only 60 cm or 80 cm, and the takeoff point is about 1 m or slightly more below the barrel's rim?
I would also completely cover the bins, but the bins belong to the previous owner of the garden, and unfortunately, there are no lids left. Hardware stores and garden centers are still closed due to the coronavirus. I only have an old compost sieve to cover the top of one bin, but there are many other bins in the garden.
There is certainly no shortage of drinking opportunities; there are several birdbaths in my garden and in the surrounding gardens there are birdbaths and a pond with a shallow bank.
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Volating or rabbit wire helps well. If you can bend it like a lid, then there’s nothing in it. So that no cat falls in, you can make a frame of wood.
Easy to cover! And put up a real bird drink there is a bowl with a few cm of water in it and a few branches. All two days, please renew the water. In our bird drink the birds also bathe it is not only there for drinking. By the way, in water tons, others are already drowned, one should always cover such things and also not make accessible to children.
Put a grating over it – so a bird can sit on the grating to drink water but do not drown and yet your bottle will be full of water.
If you want to remove water, you just take the grid away and put it on it again.
I would pack a lid on the ton and put an extra bird pool for the birds in which they can stand
You haven’t finished reading?^^
“There is no lack of drinking opportunities, in my garden there are several bird drowns and in the gardens around there are bird drowns and a pond with flat shore.”
Oh, yeah, I was just flying over the question was so long
I’ve got four birds in the garden. That’s why I didn’t expect a bird to try to drink water from a ton where the water was about 70 cm below the edge.
Hello Peter,
a thicker branch placed obliquely into the ton can save many animals…
Whether insects, squirrels or birds….yes even cats can fall into a rain ton and can no longer rescue themselves….
But if you put a thick branch in the ton, then they can climb it up.
Maybe you’ll try this… all the good, Mika
My father then had a metal ring on which a matchingly cut fly grating (also metal) was attached. The water came through the lid but before all the mosquitoes had to stay outside.
Later a large tank was buried in which the water was led by a gutter, above a old centrifugal pump on it and finished
Just make a net over what you can easily lose, e.g. if you need water.
Can’t the birds get caught on the net? I’ve seen a bird hanging in a net stretching in front of a wall of the house and just didn’t get out.
Hmh can be. But if there is a tight net with small gaps, it should go.
Net is not a solution, the birds actually stick to it.
Had a good idea, a small board as an island
swim and get in the water
Take out.
I always put my ton on the lid because of the
Odds and dirt.
But I set up bird drowns.
I’m sure I’m going to do that with the board as an island
if the ton remains open for refilling. D a n e
opi venerable. who always learns to do this!
For insects, frogs, toads and cats you put a board slanted in each ton, it is rough enough, this also helps to nail,
but I have made mesh wire over the tons and just put a matching thick laaaang branch in.
Network or grid over it
you have random tree trunk, approx. 8-12 cm diameter, 120 cm long?
Put this in a slant then birds can climb up there
I already had the idea. But the bark must not be too smooth. A neighbor, for example, has cherry tree branches lying around, the bark is very smooth and an animal would have it hard to climb it.
Embroidered Roundwood with Rabbit
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you can also cover the tree trunk with cork roll, pure luxury
The solution is called grids
Put a grid over it?
Something like a grill
The grill in the garden is too small for the tons (internal diameter about 60 to 80 cm).
https://www.amazon.de/EdelstahlKugelgrill-Grillrost-Feuerschale-Grillschale/dp/B071J937RZ/ref=mp_s_a_1_13?dchild=1&keywords=grillrost+80cm&qid=1588510837&sprefix=grillrost+80&sr=8
Even to Austria, I get the deliveries only a little later… the longest lasted 2 weeks.
Funny, mine comes within 4 days
The delivery times on Amazon are very long. Several neighbors had ordered articles in the last weeks and despite their Amazon-Prime membership, the delivery time in most cases is 6 to 24 (!) weeks.
The construction markets are likely to be open again (should happen in 1 to 2 weeks) rather than an Amazon delivery.
Flying grating over spanning 👍