For wild animals, a coming heat wave can become life-threatening: Many animals cannot find water and are dependent on human help.
🦔 Hedgehogs: Many hedgehogs currently have young, but due to the dry weather and high temperatures, the hedgehog mothers find hardly any water and food, and thus do not manage to produce enough milk for their young. Whole hedgehog families die so painfully in the summer heat.
Place a water bowl in the garden (no milk) and give hedgehogs - and other animals - the opportunity to get liquid.
🐦 Birds: Our indigenous birds are also dependent on water and benefit from a watering hole. In addition to the vital drinking water provided by a bird bath, they can also cool down there and care for their plumage. Important: Flat edge, so that the birds can land, roughened bottom, so that the birds have a foothold, depth from 2.5 cm at the edge to 5 or 10 cm in the middle, so that different large bird species can bathe.
🐜 Insects: A drinking trough for bees, bumblebees, butterflies and other insects is quickly built and can be placed on any balcony. Insects need water to drink and also to build nests. Since insects cannot swim, they need a shallow access to the water and exit possibilities: A shallow bowl filled with stones is the ideal insect bar and looks nice, too. (Attention: Place it as windless as possible!)