I’ve seen large birds bathing in the channel of the water feature, but it’s too deep, and the flow is too strong, for small birds. So I rigged up this birdbath using a rainspout trough. The water supply comes from an existing pump and tube that used to feed water through a bamboo pipe into the basin. The rocks help keep it in place and break up the incoming stream.

We have to monitor the main pump and flow, because there are leaks in the concrete channel that cause the basin to run dry after a full day of use. But I think we’ll be able to run this part of the water feature 24 hours a day. I hope so, because the birds really need the water.