Toy earth worms
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Topic: Toy earth worms
Posted By: kruzaroad
Subject: Toy earth worms
Date Posted: 29 Jan 2023 at 9:08am
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Does anyone know where I can get life like toy earthworms, centipedes or other bugs birds like. (from a shop) Not fishing tackle ones, they cost a fortune. Just after some cheap kids toy type thing to spread around under trees to bring the mynas and starlings down from the back branches. Any ideas or names of shops be appresiated. Just finding overseas stuff on Web even with nz added on. |
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Posted By: Billbobnz
Date Posted: 29 Jan 2023 at 10:53am
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Kmart Just put Al your food scraps out or buy some cheap and nasty loaves of bread |
Posted By: kruzaroad
Date Posted: 29 Jan 2023 at 11:15am
| If it works rubber worms and things are totally portable, Reusable, won't stink up. I'm looking at it like a fisherman with his lures sort of thing. |
Posted By: Pauly5
Date Posted: 30 Jan 2023 at 4:28am
| what about snake lollies? |
Posted By: kruzaroad
Date Posted: 30 Jan 2023 at 4:34am
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😊 I'd eat them. It's a case of I've seen them around but can't find them when I want them. I'll try a few 2dollar shops at some stage, they may have them. Was hoping that maybe a couple of forum members with kids may have noticed them in a toy shop over Xmas when buying pressys. |
Posted By: Pauly5
Date Posted: 30 Jan 2023 at 4:40am
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yea, i'd eat them too. Starlings around my place eat the cat biscuits. I can sit inside, and they will land at the bowls 5 m away. I have shot 4 or 5 lately, but mum and dad starling still brings the babies to learn. |
Posted By: kruzaroad
Date Posted: 30 Jan 2023 at 4:52am
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Shoot the adults first. Babys will learn too late. Dog roll is fantastic. Mynars take a lot of risk before they give up on dog roll. I want to keep away from anything that goes off. Like the idea of being able to shoot till they get wary, throw them in my pocket head to differnt area reset up. Chuck them in the car when finished and they can sit there till I want to use them again. Also that thing of after rain, starlings and mynars go hard on worms and insects, so presenting them with a banquet of thier natural diet at those times I feel would be more effective. (mind you so would a 410) |
Posted By: Pauly5
Date Posted: 30 Jan 2023 at 5:02am
| What about making your own out of silicone? run out some small beads on paper, worm like, and let them dry. Just a random thought of mine. |
Posted By: kruzaroad
Date Posted: 30 Jan 2023 at 5:14am
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Birds have sharp eyesight, so I think the realism is needed. It could be a good idea after I've found some, if I made a cast and then used silicone to make more from the mold. So far looks like billbobs sujestions of kmart will get me a tube of critters for a few bucks but they are wierd colours and things like reds tend to indicate poisons in insects and could put birds off. They would make good molds. Even though I've moved closer to town, I'm still 20km out so might head in Monday and have a look around. |
Posted By: Pauly5
Date Posted: 30 Jan 2023 at 5:23am
| When I use silicone, I pull the dried plug out and stick them in random spots around the garage. Quite a fascinating material, like jelly nipples. |
Posted By: kruzaroad
Date Posted: 30 Jan 2023 at 5:33am
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Yee gods what do you get upto with your silicone! A shed full of nipple replicas sounds like a recipe for mr plod to give you a visit 
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Posted By: RangerPete
Date Posted: 18 May 2023 at 4:08pm
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Hi Kruza, Did u ever find and try some plastic creepy crawlys? Did u manage to get the attention of some mynas and starlings, and more importantly, did u manage to fool any of them long enough to get in a shot? 😉 ------------- Walk quietly, but carry a big stick. |
Posted By: kruzaroad
Date Posted: 18 May 2023 at 4:16pm
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Tryed a few kids toys ones. Weren't that realistic in colour. Not bab in form. Tryed most realistic even adding on eye dots and suspending some of flying ones of thin nylon line so there was movement to catch the birds eye. Total flop. Don't know if softer more realistic ones would work but they arn't easy to find. Real worms in jar weren't successful either. Pears on the pear tree were a constant draw and proved a good few weeks of success. |
Posted By: RangerPete
Date Posted: 19 May 2023 at 1:27am
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Well it was a good idea and worth a try 👍🏻 All birds have exceptionally good eye sight and would be hard to fool with fake food, but on the other hand that’s what makes them easy to attract when you put out real food 👍🏻 Bit of useless info here, but did u know they used to use pigeons excellent eye sight to find people lost at sea? They would train the pigeon by feeding it crushed corn, and the pigeon would get used to eating small pieces of yellow and orange food. Then when someone was lost at sea they would take the pigeon up high in a helicopter with a glass panel in the floor and the pigeon in a cage. Flying very high they can cover huge areas of open sea, but from that height a human eye won’t be able see a life raft or a life jacket. Life jackets and life rafts are usually yellow or orange. When the pigeon started tapping on the glass it had seen some “food” and they’d go down and investigate. ------------- Walk quietly, but carry a big stick. |