MAINE SUNDAY TELEGRAM • June 11, 2023
Water is the one consistent thing that all birds need, so it has the potential to attract a great variety of birds to your yard. How to deal with mosquitoes that develop in your bird bath? Birds need insects, including mosquitoes and black flies, to feed their young. It is the abundance of those insects that propels birds to take multi-thousand-mile migrations to get to Maine each summer, where there will be enough food for them to breed. Instead of dumping pesticides into a bird bath, I recommend cleaning it out every couple of days. ~ Maine Audubon Staff Naturalist Doug Hitchcox.