How to Clean a Birdbath Without Bleach
If you wish to attract birds to your backyard, you need to have a birdbath. It is easily available in the market at different prices and you can order the one that suits you. It will definitely add more grace to your yard and will keep the chirpy visitors happy.
However, you have to take proper care of the birdbath, as it gets stained pretty quickly. If you don’t clean it on a regular basis, the birds will not visit your yard. Even if they do, they might end up catching some disease.
Cleaning a birdbath is not a difficult thing at all, but you have to be careful with the products you use. Most people use bleach to complete this task, which can be dangerous for the birds and kill them. Therefore, you have to look for a safer way.
Things Required:
– Rainwater
– Scrubbing brush
– Plastic bottle or tank
– Rubber gloves
Instructions
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1
Save some rainwater
The first thing you need to do is collect some rainwater. There are a couple of easy ways of doing so and one of them is to collect it in a tank. If you don’t like that, you can gather some rainwater in a bottle cut from the top. Since you might need rainwater every time you clean the birdbath, it is ideal to store it whenever there is rainfall.
Remember you have to retrieve it as soon as the rain stops otherwise it will grow algae. -
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Drain the birdbath
Drain the contaminated water from the birdbath in order to clean it properly. If you see leaves or any other solid waste, remove it with your hands. Make sure to wear rubber gloves, so that your hands don’t get dirty. -
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Add rainwater in the birdbath
Pour some fresh rainwater in the birdbath and leave it for a while, so that all the bird droppings and other stains become a bit soft. -
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Clean with a scrubbing brush
Use a scrubbing brush to clean the birdbath. If you don’t have that, you can use a toothbrush too, but that will not be much effective, as some of the stains don’t go that easily. -
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Empty the birdbath again
After cleaning the birdbath properly, drain the rainwater from it and see if any more stains are left. -
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Fill clean water in the birdbath
Finally, fill clean water in the birdbath and enjoy looking at the birds.
