7:20 AM – There wasn’t much new bird action this week. It was mostly the same backyard residents drinking and bathing etc. The big news is the failure of our new birdbath, the fancy one that’s supposed to let us tip out the water without detaching from the rail. It’s bigger and deeper than the other, but the attachment hardware doesn’t really work. We decided to replace it with a low-tech version. But we’re also adding one of those solar powered sprinklers. Hope it works the way it’s supposed to. If it does, the birds should like it.

The temperature dropped below freezing, so we had ice on the bird baths. Here’s a couple of videos of the birds coping with it. This morning I went out and broke through to the water for them.

Bluebird, finch and sparrows on ice:

Cardinal on ice: