My great Dad sadly died last year after spending a few months in hospital, whilst he was in my Mum was diagnosed with dementia and went down hill very quickly - especially without her mate of over 60 years, she is now in a very loving care home and although she is my Mum her personality has mostly gone and in a way she has died as well. They were both great parents and I owe/miss them a lot. They were Twitchers and as my Mum had to go into 24/7 care I had to sell their house and self fund her care from the proceeds, in the process of clearing the house i kept their Bird Bath.
Thw Bird Bath has been very active recently so I set up a Blink Camera yesterday to record what was going on whilst I was out and about. When I came back I had over 50 clips of birds that came to visit their Bird Bath. The quality is not that good, the lens is too wide but I find it very heart warming to watch the birds it's like my parents are saying hello, I know they would have loved it.
I do not know if this works or not but here is a 2 minute (far from perfect) clip of a robin and blue tit taking a summer dip, there was also (but not included in the clip) a pigeon, blackbird, thrush, sparrow and of course starlings...the Robin was the main user though I never knew they were such prolific bathers.
Anyway I am going to bed - work beckons.......goodnight
Bird Bath 1 by
idomy best, on Flickr