Bird Watching: Why don't the birds use my bird bath and water wiggler?, 1 by TheHackster

TheHackster wrote:
Ok, here's my setup.

#1 - I suspended two 1-gallon milk jugs over my bird bath.

#2 - I placed one end of 1/4 inch fish aquarium aeration tubing into a milk jug. What you can't see is the piece of wire clothes hanger I taped the tubing tube. It prevents the tube from crimping where it bends and enters the jug.

$3 - At the other end of the tubing I inserted a green plastic valve that controls air flow (in my case it controls water flow). Then, I opened the green valve, and sucked water out of the jug into the tubing. Once the water starts to flow I turn the valve down until the water is slowly dripping. it will continue to drop as long as water is in the jug.

#4 - Close-up of the green valve.

Hope this explains what I did. It works really well. The constant dripping, makes ripples in the water and that attracts my birds.

Hack