Originally Posted by
Mabouya
Jorn, do you have water for them in the winter too? It takes quite a few watts to keep a decent sized birdbath from freezing when the temps drop below, say, 20* and I haven't been able to justify it to myself, even though I do have a heated bath that I could use.
I also wonder how far birds will go for water in the winter. My house is almost exactly halfway between a creek that almost never freezes, and the MO river, which obviously always runs, and it's almost exactly 1 mile each way "as the crow flies." I don't know if that's close enough for the guys who come to my feeder - it might be too far for the littler ones.