Now that summer is just about gone, we have the cooler months ahead and then the cold ones. You can keep your birdbath out in these cooler days but a bird bath heater might be needed.

Birds obviously like all other living animals need water. If you have a bird bath and you have regular visitors to your bird bath then these feathered friends might have come to depend on this water source. There are ways to keep a fresh water source for birds year round.  There are bird bath heaters, bird bath de-icers, and winter bird bath kits!

Let’s take a look at a winter bird bath kit.

Here is what is included.  A submersible bird bath heater or de-icer. This bird bath heater allows you to provide ice free water for your local birds all winter long and it is safe in ceramic bird baths, concrete bird baths and plastic bird baths.   This kit also includes bird bath protector. This product is non-toxic and is all natural bacteria free enzymes. Go green with you bird bath! All of this for a little over $50.00! Get one this winter before your bird bath freezes over and your little and large feathered friends are left out in the cold with no fresh water!

Just a quick update on the baby house sparrow that we found in the middle of the road.

The baby House Sparrow that we found stopped taking food. We decided to call a bird rescue center and drop the little guy off. While we were there my son decided to volunteer. He is now training at the facility. You can view there website here : www.birdrescuecenter.com

He works there taking care of all of the injured birds. He also feeds all of the orphaned baby birds. It is really a great place. We will be providing pictures and stories from the rescue center here on Thebirdnerds.com.

Now back to that little sparrow. Once he was brought to the rescue center he was put into a habitat with other baby sparrows and began eating on his own. We had the pleasure of releasing him and the other baby sparrows back into the wild just the other day! Here is a very short video of the release.