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Hi Gayle;
Placing them on the cover of a tupperware dish filled with hot water works really well.
I used to put mine on a small square container, about as big as a sandwich. The cover had a small indentation running along the edge, kind of like a "moat" and the worms would try to get off the warm cover - a bit too warm for them, and get trapped in this moat. The warbler had an easy time picking them up. The water only stayed hot for a few minutes, then it stayed warm for 15-20 minutes - but that was all that was needed. The worms were long gone by the time the water got cold.
--- On Sat, 2/6/10, Gayle MacLean <duartess2003@yahoo.ca> wrote:
> From: Gayle MacLean <duartess2003@yahoo.ca>
> Subject: [NatureNS] Feeding Meal Worms During The Winter
> To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca, ns-rba@yahoo.com
> Received: Saturday, February 6, 2010, 4:16 PM
> Tuma Young and Nick Honig kindly
> brought by live meal worms (all contained, of course) for me
> to try to get the OC Warbler to eat. I have made up a wicker
> tray suspended by ribbon, attached to a branch &
> anchored by some more ribbon to a branch below, close to
> where the plum pudding feeder is. I have a small ceramic
> dish that I will microwave & will, when I see the
> warbler out there, put some of the live worms in the dish
> & will take it out & place it in the tray.
> Anyone have any success using this approach? Or will I
> really need to use a plate that will stay heated by use of a
> battery operated heating coil?.
> It is doing ok with the plum pudding but know, as advised
> by Fulton Lavender & Hope Swinamer, that it probably is
> just 'existing' and not much else.
> Anyway, any thoughts would be welcomed.
> Thanks,
>
> Gayle MacLean
> >
>
>
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