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Re: freezing bird baths



We have an electric heater made for bird baths to keep the water from
freezing.  They are very safe and the birds really appreciate it when the
temperature is below freezing.  A note about sugar water.  Our sugar water
in our hummingbird feeder is a solid block of ice with the 19 degree
temperature this morning.  As I recall, Bob Sargent said at the CBC meeting
that sugar water freezes at 28 degrees.  So it can and does often get cold
enough in North Carolina to freeze sugar water.  Bringing the feeder in at
night is the best way to solve this.

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Dwayne & Lori Martin
Foothills Bird Club
Claremont, NC
dlmartin@twave.net