Making a nice free futuristic-looking birdbath by recycling a discarded DirecTV satellite receiver dish.

by James K. Sayre

A year ago Christmas, the five-year old DirecTV receiver box finally gave up the ghost. The Christmas Day pictures were green, red and gray. Fitting I thought, and taped a couple of TV shows in this mode. After I canceled the satellite TV service, the DirecTV folks showed no interest in retrieving their gray satellite dish that was attached to the back roof of my house. So I just left it there.

Finally, I decided to try out their only competitor out in coastal California, and a technician came an installed their new satellite dish. Later, I discovered the DirecTV dish sitting inside of my garage, and I picked it up with a notion of tossing it into the garbage can. Then a little light flashed in my almost feeble brain: recycle it. It would seemingly make a nice shallow discreetly-colored (gun-metal gray) birdbath, if it held water. So I put it dish-side up and propped up the second and third sides with a couple of old bricks and then filled it with water.

It holds water and so it can be a source of water for local birds, day cats and the some night-time mammals, such as raccoons, opossums and skunks.

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