Different method of ‘worm calling’ in Alabama - drive a stake into the ground, then rub a board of some kind back and forth across the top. This makes the stake vibrate and the worms come to the top - I have no idea why, but they do.
We were too poor to own tuning forks - or even know what one was.
The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. - Henry Van Dyke