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Thawing Out

At 1:25am, Feb 15, 2021, our power went out from Oncor doing blackouts during Snowmageddon 2021. The temperatures were single digits and went down to -2 a few hours later. The power was off for 10 hours that first time and my fountain lost the use of the pump and the heater and froze solid. When the power came back I had to leave the pump unplugged but I plugged in the heater even though it was encased in solid ice. Boy did it work. This photo is taken 3 hours after our power came back & it had melted enough water for this sparrow to get a drink. We had a 2nd power outage later that lasted 9 hours & went thru the same situation with the fountain. Inside our house was at 48 degrees both times. Survival times for all creatures outside & inside.
Male House Sparrow (Passer domesticus)

Passer domesticus house sparrow sparrow male house sparrow male sparrow Garland Texas close up outside my window cold fountain thirsty drinking snowmageddon 2021 snow frozen survival snowstorm ice