Hand made natural stone bird baths
Devin Devine, stone artist based out of North East Pennsylvania
Boulder bird baths, and unique original design baths– are available for pick up in Tamaqua PA and in Blakeslee PA
email devin@devineescapes.com to purchase
Each stone is hand selected for useful shape, and interesting character. I collect individual stones and combine them into pleasing forms.
Large and small bird baths serve to attract a wider variety of birds to your yard.
Smaller bird baths attracts smaller birds, who might not visit the larger, deeper bird bath. Also, more aggressive or larger birds may dominate a water source, and keep other birds away. Therefore the pairing multiple sizes of bird baths together may provide you with opportunities to watch a greater variety of birds.
Natural stone bird bath, mossy Pocono boulder
New! the Tri-lithon bird bath
Medium sized birdbath, approximately 19 inches tall. Wild harvested stones with lichen and moss. Sold! Hand made with love, no template used. Patterns of lichen on the top stone, harvested creekside. Light smattering of moss on the base stone, found in the woods of Pennsylvania.
video, made a couple days after installation–frequent visits already!
It’s a simple story, and a timeless activity; search around in the forest for the right stone. Find one that looks like it would make a good upright. Find one that would make a good bath. Carve out the bath. That my friends, is how you make a bird bath.
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SOLD! Email devin@devineescapes.com to order unique works hand crafted in stone. I’ve been working with stone for more than 2 decades. Have been gathering stones this whole time. I have a secret stash! Luckily, I have a couple of places in nature where the owners allow me exclusive access to stone found there. But these are somewhat remote locations, and I’m only grabbing one stone at a time. Other stones I find whilst excavating for other projects. Other stones come from other people’s job sites, from quarries…I’m always on the look out for a good stone.
medium sized birdbath, approximately 17″ tall base and 3″ thick top piece. Pocono Mountain field stone.
Both stones are natural, never-cut, not quarried pieces. Therefore, it seemed right to make the bath non-circular this time, a roundish organic shape. To birds flying about–it looks like a natural puddle.
Bluestone birdbaths and boulder birdbaths
Bluestone birdbaths and boulder birdbaths
birdbaths with interlocking
legs
Stone birdbaths, mother and child/parent and offspring. Private commission, in Rehoboth Beach Delaware.
Large and small bird baths serve to attract a wider variety of birds to your yard. Smaller bird baths attracts smaller birds, who might not visit the larger, deeper bird bath, whereas larger birds may appreciate being able to splash, bathe and drink from the larger/deeper bird bath. Here, the two sizes are paired together, as parent and child.
How deep should a natural stone bird bath be?
Good question! Deeper birdbaths will attract larger birds but may intimidate smaller birds.
The water should be no deeper than 0.5 to 1 inch at the edges, sloping to a maximum of 2 inches deep in the middle of the bath
Bird baths with spring-style support base:
More garden decor:
- natural stone benches that are hand made and not manufactured
- log arbors made from winding cedar branches
More dry stone work:
Artistic stone work:
Again, I went for the parent/offspring concept. Small birds need water too, you guys.
So I happened upon a couple of abandoned pieces of bluestone. These two stones apparently had been cut square, but then got chipped and as a result were deemed unsellable, or unusable. From there….well, I’m not sure if these two stones were put in a tumbler, or if they just got kicked around, shoved out of the way, and then subsequently driven over–for years. In any event they both looked cool to me, and the sense of an implied backstory intrigues.
Is it damaged perfection? Or beauty–that was abandoned, but then later re-found and appreciated? Or is it the subverted attempt at uniformity?
These two lovely stones were both about 24″ by 24″ and 3 inches thick….goodly sized for bird bathing! So one of them became the top for the larger interlocking flagstone bird bath(at the top of the page), and the other became the top for the larger upright-boulder bird bath. Both of the smaller offspring bird bath tops were cut square and then roughed up and weathered, mimicking the reclaimed/antique look of the larger pieces.
