Bird Bath

Wednesday, 23rd November 2005

bird bath
The bird bath in the summer

sparrow bathingThe frost has eased and the bird bath has thawed out, attracting the sparrows back again to go through their ebullient bathing routines. It's as well that we now have a bird bath (a Christmas present from a friend last year) because the garden pond is thickly frozen and, even when it isn't, it is now so overgrown with emergent water plants that it's difficult for the birds to find enough space around the edges to bathe. Next Page

Richard Bell, richard@willowisland.co.uk