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Happy to report, the ceramic dish method seems to be working too, Just saw the warbler pecking away & checking out the contents, don't know if the worms were frozen by then or not, had been out there for 20 minutes or so. But he seems interested anyway!! Will try the hot water/tupperware dish idea too!
Thanks, Suzanne!!
Gayle MacLean
--- On Sat, 2/6/10, Suzanne Borkowski <suzanneborkowski@yahoo.ca> wrote:
> From: Suzanne Borkowski <suzanneborkowski@yahoo.ca>
> Subject: Re: [NatureNS] Feeding Meal Worms During The Winter
> To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca
> Received: Saturday, February 6, 2010, 3:34 PM
> 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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