Bird Baths - cheap alternatives (2024)

I have begun to collect large glazed pottery dishes that are not porous to use as bird baths around our yard, along with stands such as pot plant stands to hold them from op shops and other secondhand stores.

The plan is to have bird baths that do not have the porous nature of concrete and thus harbouring mold etc, bird baths that can be washed clean with little trouble and are light enough to collect from around the yard for cleaning.

This also means that instead of one large bird bath that all birds need to access there are several smaller ones around the yard in different locations so different birds can gather in different places.

The bird baths will all be different sizes thus attracting different sized birds and these supplement the large old bath tub that we use as a watering pointfor birds and mammals that visit the yard.

I have found that on one day in one op shop alone I was able to buy three dishes of suitable sizes for $12 and I had 2 plant stands already and I will buy another at an op shop.

Inside each dish will be a stone and a stick to assist birds as well as anyreptilesor other animals that might venture in for waterin getting in and out of the water.