Today's reading of the coming week's weather forecast convinced me that it is finally time to put the bird baths on a winter footing. The early morning temperature expected for Tuesday is now down to a few degrees short of freezing. Experience shows that we can expect such a night as early as 10/22 and, on average, 10/28. So I rigged up the bird bath deicer on the pedestal bath and, as I do not have equipment (yet) for it, took down and cleaned the ground level bath for winter storage. It felt like winter today, too. We didn't get out of the mid-50s which is more like a December than October day. So the sting of making the seasonal change wasn't so bad. Now we are set for the cold times. The birds will have a dependable source of clean, ice-free water no matter how crummy it gets.
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Getting Ready for Winter
Today's reading of the coming week's weather forecast convinced me that it is finally time to put the bird baths on a winter footing. The early morning temperature expected for Tuesday is now down to a few degrees short of freezing. Experience shows that we can expect such a night as early as 10/22 and, on average, 10/28. So I rigged up the bird bath deicer on the pedestal bath and, as I do not have equipment (yet) for it, took down and cleaned the ground level bath for winter storage. It felt like winter today, too. We didn't get out of the mid-50s which is more like a December than October day. So the sting of making the seasonal change wasn't so bad. Now we are set for the cold times. The birds will have a dependable source of clean, ice-free water no matter how crummy it gets.
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