Not as exciting as seeing Bigfoot……but…….

Patching some bare grass spots after work today, why I picked the hottest day of the year is an unknown, anyway, using a 3 pronged garden tool to pick at the bare spots and loosen the dirt to put down seed, I begin to notice nightcrawlers in the grass all around me. I’ve seen videos and read about how making noises into the ground makes the crawlers and worms surface well I’m now a believer. I worked 3 different areas in the shade and sun and all 3 spots have surfacing crawlers, picked up a couple dozen for the fridge. So much for rainy nights, flashlights and mosquitos, why bother when all I need to do is go pound the ground. just sharing a little info

Cool stuff…..a piece of steel pipe driven into the ground in the middle of a compost pile works great too. Just rap on the side with a piece of wood or hammer and wait for them to pop up to see whats making the noise

Grandpa taught me that one

I think it was Dirty Jobs that did a show on that. There are people that go around crawler callin. There was a name for it but I forget… -Mark

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I think it was Dirty Jobs that did a show on that. There are people that go around crawler callin. There was a name for it but I forget… -Mark

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it’s called Hillbilly or Redneck

They called it “worm grunting”.

Ever see Robins hopping around on the ground. They will stop, turn thier heads sideways and listen. They hop again and do the same thing. Then you’ll see them go down and grab a worm and pull it out. I’ve seen this since I’ve been a kid and it does only work when the ground fairly wet or moist, a few days after a rain. I’ve seen them pull both crawlers and earthworms. Both of them always seem to come out from under the roots of the grass bunches and not from bare ground. When I figured this out I figured the worms didn’t go down deep during the day, they stayed under the root balls of those bunches of grass etc. Watch them sometime and see where they pull the worms from.

They aren’t listening. That is a personification. People tilt their heads to listen for things below them because their ears are on the side of their head. Same things for robins, just a different organ, a different sense. Their eyes are on the sides of their head.

I know thats the reason Pug but I still think thier listening for movement. When the robin hops it scares the worm and he sees and hears it move, even if its the tip or the worm, anything else would be extra sensory preception because birds can’t smell.

Mossy…my bird smells.

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Mossy…my bird smells.

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My bird uses his pecker for eating, in the bird world, that is not considered unique.

What bird are you talking about Brian, birds can’t smell other wise you’d never shoot a turkey. If a turkey could smell and with the eyesight he has you’d never bag one. With you saying your bird can smell and Stuart saying his bird eats with his pecker thats something I never heard in science class, hmmm bird of a diffrent feather .

Mossy, I didn’t say my bird can smell. I said my bird smells.

Big difference.

Smells? smells like what? now I’m really confused, this is all way over my head. You take him catfishing with you?

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I know thats the reason Pug but I still think thier listening for movement.

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That is a complete contradiction. You know they are looking for worms, but you think they are listening for them???

Robins cannot hear, that’s sonar they have for worms.

The side of thier head is the transducer.

Thats what BK told me anyways.

Yes Pug, looking and listening, if birds can hear why wouldn’t they be listening for them.

Well Mossy I had to Google it to be sure,Robins find the worm 100% by sight.No sonar,smell or hearing involved.
They sure do look like they are trying to hear.

One more question for you.Why don’t chickens pee?

Its a total full blown conspiracy Stuart lol, I’m not doubting you guys or argueing a point but its still hard to believe that if a bird can hear, why it wouldn’t use that sense to find a meal along with the sense of sight. I’d like to see the test they used that says birds may not listen for thier meals if that meal may make a noise, to aid in helping them find it. If they can hear why wouldn’t they be able to home in on something a little easier. A favorite type of bug or moth maybe? Why wouldn’t they use every preception possible to find a meal because sometimes there isn’t food on every limb or under every blade of grass. Next thier going to try to tell me that all bugs taste the same and they don’t have favorites.

Wild turkeys can hear because I’ve been busted while trying to hide from them and because a wild turkey can hear then why wouldn’t a June bug buzzing on the ground or flying close by draw thier attention. If wild turkeys can hear then why wouldn’t robins be able too also. Obiviously these robin scientists aren’t hunters or hunted crawlers (joke).

I have no idea why chickens don’t pee because it seems they have the parts to do it or there wouldn’t be little chickens. Who said chickens don’t pee anyway, another Robin rumor?

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Robins find the worm 100% by sight.

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I agree! Lowrance Down Imaging.

Now look what you started Tom!

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I have no idea why chickens don’t pee because it seems they have the parts to do it or there wouldn’t be little chickens. Who said chickens don’t pee anyway, another Robin rumor?

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This is right from my Grandmother so don’t you be calling her a liar.
Chickens don’t pee because they use thier peckers for eating.

Ok problem at hand solved, grandmothers are always right. Ive got to go down today to one of the local colleges to see if I’m going to paint all summer. If I do then I’ll ask the local biology professor if birds, Robins in perticular, can hear and chickens do indeed pee, this ought to be an interisting summer.

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I have no idea why chickens don’t pee because it seems they have the parts to do it or there wouldn’t be little chickens. Who said chickens don’t pee anyway, another Robin rumor?

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This is right from my Grandmother so don’t you be calling her a liar.
Chickens don’t pee because they use thier peckers for eating.

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LOL. I can tell you why they don’t pee, but everyone is going to start calling me…

For the older generation
Marlin Perkins Clavin

For the youngsters
Jeff Corwin Clavin

Here’s your hint Mossy.

They like taking poopees.

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ask the local biology professor if birds, Robins in perticular, can hear and chickens do indeed pee,

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Check and see if owls eat fish too will ya?

That sounds reasonable Pug, they get rid of body wastes via the rear exit. Obviously in chicken science class they have found theres no bladder connected to a regular exit, only the rear. I do know that chickens don’t sweat, now I’m a little wiser finding out that chickens don’t pee, do I get a certificate for this, I hope so lol.

Jheese BrainK with all these indepth questions maybe I’ll get a raise, promote this guy to the top immediately, now I’m looking forward to the raise i’ll no doubt get, this days starting out good already, lots to look forward too. I hope the professor does’t tell me to come back at the end of summer vacation.