Help the birds: Autodrinking own hands Bashny.Net

The site Russian Bird Conservation Union told how to do Autodrinking for birds. It has developed a photographer Sergey Smorovoz. Watering the beds in the country, he saw two birds swimming in the water garden hose spray, just in the place where the latter was careless leak.

Birds were so hot that they are allowed to handle yourself almost 3 meters and do not slide, curiously eyeing the crowd of people and continued to splash and drink water. Realizing that hot right now, not only people, Sergei thought about automatic devices. He eventually came up with a simple way to help the birds, accessible to many.

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"Almost immediately I began to work on the establishment of the engineering thought of an automatic device, which differs from a mere cup of water, in which water evaporates faster and rasplёskivaetsya more, but at the same time not having too complex and zatratoёmkoy design. Improvised were plastic bottles of various sizes and volumes, this material I chose.

I took baklashku round (not square) for 5 liters, which was sold in ordinary drinking water and a bottle of 2 liters, out of mineral water. Both tanks have a different cap diameter drill the exact center is bolted and clamped by two bolts with washers. Bottle caps to be inserted into each other so that threaded caps, and first and second are on one side.

Then cut the large baklashku (5 L) to from the thread to the cutting line formed bowl, and a bottle (2 L) made a hole diameter of about 1 cm. The distance from the neck of the bottle before opening the bottle must be less than the distance from the thread baklashki to baklashki large bowl edge. When assembled structure turned out, Here's a drinker. "



The essence of this design is that once the water in the bottle through the orifice will reach the level of this opening, so immediately stop filled bowl. If the water will decrease until up again until the water level drops below this opening, and the cup is immediately replenished.

In other words, if the birds will drink from the cup of water, the water in the bowl will be as long as there is water in the bottle, and it there is almost 2-liter and two-liter not spill over immediately to the ground and evaporate, and will be spent gradually. It remains to fill the trough with water and secured to the tree.

"At first the bird to a new facility on their territory, treated very cautiously. The first exploration ventured ubiquitous tits. First, they examined the "object" from a safe distance, then some of them tried to drink water, and then went partying at full speed. Tits and began to drink and bathe in the new reservoir. Looking at all this from behind tits began to catch up already and nuthatches. Soon to drinkers lined up and began regular bird mess. "



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