I went and made a bird feeder out of some scrap wood i have laying around and it’s attracted a few birds. My next idea was to put a bird bath out, just a small dish for them, but how do i keep it heated, any ideas? I was thinking about maybe using a aquarium heater? I think i heated dog dish would be too deep.
I know they make heater’s specifically for bird baths. Not positive where to get one though. If you google it you will come up with many results. Hope this helps
Not sure how to make a heated bird bath, but I know they make them.
Would it be possible to use that coil people use to keep their gutters from freezing as a heating element for the bird bath?
Just a thought.
How about a heated dog dish and fill it with sand to make it only as deep as you want? A heated dog dish from Fleet Farm is probably significantly cheaper than a heated birdbath I am guessing.
Tim
Farm & Fleet have them. There real cheap. 
The ones I have used from the Wild Bird Store, is not a heating element, but a matt used to warm the water. It works both on regular and plastic birs baths. I do not recall the price, but would say it didn’t set us back in house payments or anything. As for the type of birds your getting, we use a mix that keeps a varity of both two and four legged coming back.
We have an actual heated bird bath but I can’t remember exactly how much it was, think it was around $35, $45 or so from a wild bird store. I can say that they rarely if ever splash around in it. I bet a heated dog dish would work fine to just give them a source of water for drinking which is what they need more than a place to bathe this time of year.
The heated dog bowl would work great…or heat tape.
BIRDDOG
We’ve done the bird bath with an add on heating element and the heated dog dish. With the heated dog dish we added some rocks for the birds to sit on so it wouldn’t be too deep. With either of these you have to keep them filled or the heating element will overheat.
Both of these are kind of a hassle and require daily cleaning to clean the bird crap out of them, which is even less fun to do in freezing weather! 
Dan
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