Keeping baby birds warm?

I’m trying to raise some baby blackbirds that have fallen out of their nest. The mom built the nest in the wall of my barn. The babies couldn’t stay in it, I’ve tried putting them back several times and they fall again. One died from the fall onto a concrete floor. I took the other [...]

keeping concrete bird bath clean…?

we have a pedestal bird bath made of concrete. because we fill it up with the hose, using city water, it gets really disgusting pretty fast. there’s a lovely layer of brown algae on the bottom! scrubbing doesn’t get it out, either. i can’t use bleach because that would permeate the concrete and pollute the [...]