Birds attracted to you while detecting!

[Silver Fox]

The early bird gets the worm! How true. Ricardo's post about ants got me thinking about the many times while detecting in the parks the minute I went down on my knee(s) to dig a signal birds would appear near me, singly and a few at a time. Then when I saw the wriggling worms in the pile of dirt I deposited on the side of the hole and I understood. But how do they know that you are going to dig and that your digging may produce worms?

Sometimes I felt bad when I saw that my cutting a plug revealed a sliced a worm. And sometimes if there was a bird near me watching me I would throw it one of the worm sections which it would approach and grab with its beak and I swear I heard a faint "Thank you"!

Silver Fox

 

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[scrounger d detector collector]

birds are not stupid,they hang around anywhere the ground is being distubed. to them were just another animal.they follow all large animals .as anything big kills or wounds many more insects than u know.just by walking

 

[Evolx10]

Birds tail me all the time in the forest, just from me swinging my coil under the leaves will kick up bugs that the Tow-hee's love to munch on.

Imagine the flock of birds that follows my crew at work as we plow down overgrown lots in the Bronx.

 

[Sandman]

I am glad I am not the only one that is for the birds..... Fish follow me in the water too for the food I stir up by digging. You have to be careful too as I once brought home a small fish that got caught in my pouch an rotted in my car trunk. Took me awhile to find that smell.

 

[MD Dog]

It's not the adult birds that bother me, it's all the chicks that follow and harass me, that cause me the problems.

 

[deepskyal]

It's not the adult birds that bother me, it's all the chicks that follow and harass me, that cause me the problems.

Wish I had your problem...lol
Al

 

[Real de Tayopa Tropical Tramp]

MD: you posted -->

it's all the chicks that follow and harass me
~~~~~~~~~~~~

How come I can't get the chicks to follow me? sniff Not even with the offer of lunch, they just sorta giggle and go away.

Don Jose de La Mancha (the lonesome dectortist)

 

[MD Dog]

My secret is revealed in this post Don.

http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,164010.0.html

 

[bootybay]

MD Dog.. I dam near spitted all over my screen.. LMDAO you sir are pisser... oh hell that was so funny

 

[pookie-princess of rust]

i haven't seen too many birds around me while detecting, but my cat follows me all the time in my yard... he is annoying. always tries to sit in the holes i'm digging.

 

[watercolor]

birds are not stupid,they hang around anywhere the ground is being distubed.
to them were just another animal.they follow all large animals .as anything big kills or wounds
many more insects than u know.just by walking

It's also like a group of MD'ers following a huge front-end loader that's
tearing up a 100-year-old street & sidewalk right-of-way

 

[Real de Tayopa Tropical Tramp]

Geeze Md'r You have further depressed my sinking morale. sniff woe is me.

Don Jose de La Mancha




p.s. durn cute story, unfortunately I don have no stinkin BMW --------- snifffff.

 

[Evolx10]

It's not the adult birds that bother me, it's all the chicks that follow and harass me, that cause me the problems.

well i had that problem but i solved it by accidentally stepping on and killing a turkey chick, I think it made the headlines of The Avian Post
now all i have is vultures circling above me.

 

[Evolx10]

birds are not stupid,they hang around anywhere the ground is being distubed.
to them were just another animal.they follow all large animals .as anything big kills or wounds
many more insects than u know.just by walking

It's also like a group of MD'ers following a huge front-end loader that's
tearing up a 100-year-old street & sidewalk right-of-way

nice .. The hierarchy of life, (ascending order) Birds, MD'ers, FEL's, Dump Trucks, Fill Yards, Md'ers, Security Guards

 

[boogeyman]

MD: you posted -->

it's all the chicks that follow and harass me
~~~~~~~~~~~~

How come I can't get the chicks to follow me? sniff Not even with the offer of lunch, they just sorta giggle and go away.

Don Jose de La Mancha (the lonesome dectortist)

Gotta have a big worm to catch the chicks

The only birds that follow me are the darned mockingbirds with a nest in the tree and wanna dive bomb me till I move to the other side of the park.

 

[inneedoftherapy]

Here on the farm my metal detecting buddy is a cat who lays near each hole and a chicken who follows me everywhere waiting for that plug to come out. Then she swoops in and gets her goodies she never tires of this but sometimes I do need to shoo her away as she sometimes likes to jump into the hole and start a scratching just in case she missed anything.

 

[Bavaria Mike]

I have had birds pull the plugs open after I filled them. Had to go back to a field once and fill about 13 holes. HH, Mike