What a healthy attitude to wild life.
If people just learned to live with them life would be a lot easier and cheaper .
No insect sprays in this house , I let the spiders do their thing
Mossies are discouraged by planting repellent plants near doors and frog ponds to eat the lava
Foxes get shot because they should not be here as do ferral cat & dogs
When there was a mouse plague I had 14" of diamond python living in the ceiling
Smells a bit but cheaper & more efficient than traps & posions
Safe havens in the gardens for blue tongue lizards = no slugs or snails
Agreed on everything except shooting animals. I couldn't do that. Foxes don't really harm anything or anyone. Except stealing my cheap plastic bowls. I'm couldn't kill one just for that. They avoid conflicts at all costs.
Here's my bird bath idea. It still needs a little work.
Small doggy pool, close enough to get fed by the AC drain line. I put a birdbath in it, with a solar fountain submerged in it, with a tube that runs up through the stand and into the bird bath. I used a grommet to hold the tube in place. The pump pushes a small stream of water onto a short, thick piece of wood. It's been there a week, so far and I still haven't caught the birds bathing yet.
It does need a little improving through. Because the tube is so long, it'll only push the water up all the way when the sun is shining full on the solar panel. So I'm going to get another one. Have the bottom one only go up 1/2 way into some sort of container. And have another one in that container to send the water up the rest of the way.
It's a work in progress.
