 Welcome to getting clean on the prairies. It is Friday evening. It was another hot day here on the prairies and I Think the birds are thirsty and looking for water and I'll show you why in a couple seconds here So thought it was time to get some bird bass set up in my garden and around my yard So I found this old Basin that luckily doesn't have any holes in it. So got that set up here in the garden with a little solar Pump to kind of keep the water moving and hopefully the birds will find this pretty soon So I was getting my garden hose set up today to pump water from the rain barrels here at the house over to my garden water tank and When I come up on this barrel here, it was just loaded with birds trying to get a drink and have a little bath and I just didn't have the heart to Drain the water out of it and then have them struggling to try and get a drink and maybe drowning. So I threw a board in here that floats around and I tried to capture, you know, them flying in and having a drink while I was standing here, but of course they Wouldn't come anywhere near it while I was around so I set up my camera. I Let it sit for five or ten minutes and they all came rushing back So I hope you enjoyed this little clip of me videoing the birds enjoying a cool drink and bath on the prairies So as I stood back and quietly watched and waited for these birds to come back I I seen how they flocked in the trees right beside the rain barrel There was a lot of chattering going on for quite a while for that before they felt it was safe to come back to the barrel and I Had a look in my bird book and these are bohemian wax wings And they are a very common bird here on the Saskatchewan prairie They they show up a lot also in the winter time. They love to eat berries So I see flocks of them show up to my Cotoni aster bushes and they love to eat those berries off of that And today is the first time that I've spotted them in my yard So not sure if they're gonna stick around or if they're just stopping by on their way to somewhere else So it was quite interesting to see how they quickly all swarmed to this barrel all at once and Madly started bathing and drinking and pecking at each other