Patent ID: 8251015

Claim:
A birdbath comprising: a substantially hollow pedestal forming a water reservoir therein and having an open top end and a sealed bottom end; a basin having an inner wall and an outer wall, the inner wall being separated from the outer wall by a distance sufficient to allow a fluid to flow therebetween, the walls meeting at a peripheral edge of the basin, the outer wall open at a central portion thereof and adapted for engaging the open top end of the pedestal for fixing the basin to the pedestal, the inner wall having an aperture formed through a central portion thereof, at least one drainage aperture being formed in the inner wall proximate the peripheral edge of the basin; a water pump disposed within the reservoir of the pedestal for pumping water from an input port thereof to an output port thereof, a basin supply conduit being fixed at a bottom end, thereof to the output port of the water pump, a top end of the basin supply conduit projecting through the aperture of the inner wall of the basin, the water pump further including an energy source; whereby water contained in the reservoir of the pedestal is moved, by the water pump through the basin supply conduit and into the basin, whereupon reaching the at least one drainage aperture the water drains between the inner and outer walls back into the reservoir.