[Tweeters] sunbathing, or I mean bathing in the sun

[Hans-Joachim Feddern via Tweeters]

Dennis,
Maybe the clean living little buggers like to dry faster in the sunshine??
We had two of our resident three coots in one of our lakes taking
an extensive bath - in the sunshine today! They were really enjoying
themselves!  Now the third was nowhere to be seen! Dirty bugger!

Good birding !

Hans


*Hans Feddern*
Twin Lakes/Federal Way, WA
thefedderns at gmail.com


On Fri, Feb 6, 2026 at 12:14 PM Dennis Paulson via Tweeters <
tweeters at u.washington.edu> wrote:


> Hello tweets,

>

> An interesting thing I have noted recently is how much birds like the sun

> to be shining on their bathtub. Yesterday, just as the sun hit the edge of

> our pond in the back yard, juncos appeared and started bathing in the sun.

> They are in the yard all day long (we must have at least 25 this winter),

> feeding and just sitting around, but seem to delay bathing until that time.

>

> Yesterday the pond was in the sun for an hour, and there was never a time

> when one, two, three or even four juncos weren’t taking a lengthy bath,

> usually at least 10 inches apart. As soon as the sun left the pond, no more

> bathing. It was really striking.

>

> Dennis Paulson

> Seattle

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