...there's a limit.
The first two pictures are of a small 'bird bath' I keep at the bottom of my garden, and fair enough it's a delight to see them taking a drink and occasionally having a splash about.
Then we come to my second favourite water feature in my garden, the favourite I much prefer but as it doesn't feature in this post, other than being my favourite, no picture. My second favourite water feature is featured in the rest of the pictures. Again it is totally delightful to see the birds arrive and have a drink from this feature, even more delightful when more than one appears and they splash around either cooling down or cleaning up, I'm never sure.
Then there's the less than delightful, for some reason it is also apparently a good place, at least for our avian friends, to defecate... And that's when the limit hits. I have tried remonstrating with them, to no avail, I clearly lack avian empathy. My role seems to have reduced to that of Janitor, "
top up the water" "
ensure the pump is switched on" and, delight of delights "
make sure the pump is clear of any and all blockages'"
I kid you not, every few days in summer the water pump clogs and yours truly slips on the janitorial overalls and clears out the avian "
deposits", Mother Nature my... [or possibly theirs...]
