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(51,042 posts) Sun Jun 22, 2025, 04:13 PM Jun 2025

If you have bird baths please on occasions add ice cubes. They will melt immediately but will cool the water

or a short while

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If you have bird baths please on occasions add ice cubes. They will melt immediately but will cool the water (Original Post) question everything Jun 2025 OP

Also, if possible, providing some shade will likely help keep temps down. SheltieLover Jun 2025 #1

Exactly. Move it under a shade tree if possible. That would have to help a lot. hlthe2b Jun 2025 #2

For sure! SheltieLover Jun 2025 #3

Just to add Mosby Jun 2025 #4

SheltieLover

(74,039 posts)

1. Also, if possible, providing some shade will likely help keep temps down.

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Sun Jun 22, 2025, 04:16 PM

Jun 2025

This heat is beyond ridiculous.

hlthe2b

(111,529 posts)

2. Exactly. Move it under a shade tree if possible. That would have to help a lot.

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Sun Jun 22, 2025, 04:26 PM

Jun 2025

SheltieLover

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3. For sure!

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Sun Jun 22, 2025, 04:30 PM

Jun 2025

Poor birds.

Mosby

(19,069 posts)

4. Just to add

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Sun Jun 22, 2025, 04:44 PM

Jun 2025

If you do have a bird bath or water feeders you have to keep them consistently filled or the birds won't be able to depend on them.

In my experience water feeders are great for smaller birds, my bird bath is mostly used by my pigeons for bathing. During the summers the water feeders runs out to quickly so I supplement that with a plastic tray (like under potted plants) that I keep filled with water.

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