On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 20:03:26 -0500, "~ Windsong ~"
wrote:


"Daniel Phillips" wrote in message
.. .
I woke up, and on my walk to the car this morning I saw a terrible
site in my (above ground) half whiskey barrel pond. After five
months, it finally happened: a bird, either a robin or mourning dove,
drowned in there. And if it wasn't already ill, if they're that
insistant to get water I might just have to finally get a bird bath.
Figured that this would happen eventually. My cat could be next, I
think. Does anyone have any ideas to make the thing safer? One
suggestion was to put wire on the top, so that it closes out the
surface.

## I have 3 barrels full of water. I lay twigs across the water so birds
and other small critters that fall in can escape. Frogs that cannot escape
up the sides will also drown/starve/exhaust and die in these barrels.

I'm not sure what you mean by this. Not floating, right? From one
edge of the barrel rim to the other? About how many twigs do you use
and have you had the pleasure of seeing critters be saved by them?

Daniel Phillips

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