Thread: Bird Predator Control

Catch of the day.
KH

nice pics Kiwi Hunter. Do you find painting the Doc trap black makes a difference?

Haven't done it BillyXmas546, I had some blue possum masters and painted them black! But couldn't say there was a remarkable difference.
KH

Hi Mimms2, some taxiderm,y not too much of late.
But good to find a good use of the fresh one's.
KH

This is today's catch, But iam about to go night shooting,so it may not be all as it's not midnight yet
KH

Originally Posted by Kiwi-Hunter

Haven't done it BillyXmas546, I had some blue possum masters and painted them black! But couldn't say there was a remarkable difference.
KH

Commercial possum trapping by DJ [Dennis] Moresby mentions painting possum traps light blue. My guess was they were longspring traps or 1 1/2 size traps which would of held front foot captures ?

Possum Master do make black traps for some customers but blue is the main line - I put five in a couple of months back and my Mate reckoned they are hopeless as the possums always seem to go for a nearby Timms - but today one hung itself in a blue trap
Great pictures Guys – those mustilids put my catch to shame – first mustilid this year - not sure if it was a weasel or a small stoat - so small I lost its tail somewhere
Doing regular trips around my lines at the Quarry Park – most rat traps are losing the possum paste lure within a day or so - I suspect due to insects – around 25% of rat traps are tripped and many of those have fur or wax eye feathers on the kill bar. It is rare to find a body in a trap these days so I suspect the cannibal rats are cleaning them up and we also often find boxes dragged down the banks so I suspect we have a serious cat problem.
A cat was seen on Saturday with four kittens – so I put a doc250 and 4 doc200s together where she was seen – but no luck – she had moved on. I have opened up the mesh on all of my doc traps – maybe I will get some cats up to half grown. I have mounted some Timms traps on ramps with rabbit bait and I may have to get some Steve Allen cat kill traps.
The doc traps still pull in regular hedgehogs and the odd rat - by chance I found a small mustilid in a doc200 a couple of days back
I have just got twenty new Kness Snap-e traps for the Quarry to replace old Victor Pros – they are all in open coreflute tunnels and the possum paste lure on the yellow foot plates seems to be a big attraction for wax eye birds – I am hoping that the lure will be less obvious in the black Snap-e trap lure cup
I checked the top line this morning and found a cat in a doc250 – not a pleasant problem to solve – but female so I guess it will save many cat problems in the future.
I decided to pull in a couple of doc250s from the bottom end today as they needed a clean – one had a kitten – so I guess it was one of the four seen a few days back. Now cleaned and back out for the next ones – maybe a chicken neck and some erayz will pull them in.
My main success has been rats at one end of my street circuit – big buggars coming up out of an avocado orchard – in the D Rat and in an old victor pro - should have had the tape measure and scales - must have weighed half a kilo
A ferret was seen down by the estuary last week so I put a cage down by the water’s edge – fresh rabbit legs – first two nights caged local cats that were released unharmed – but no sign of the ferret yet – cages are definitely safer than doc250s.
So always some bird predators to trap.

Cheer for that @time out. Enjoyed the read. That is a weasel in the first photo No black tip on the tail & it much shorter!!

Those tails are easy to lose, my boys have lost a couple, much to their disappointment as they too appreciate the swamp comp !!

Also with those weasels, once you have seen a few I think the main body color is slightly different from the stoat but that is only a personal observation and my be site specific on my behalf ?

On the cats.... I really recomend giving the steve allen a go. I have got a couple in my one that I've seen on the cameras and arnt sure i would have got in a cage!?!
@Sparrow how is your one going?

@ KH & Billy Xmas, I don't get many ferrets around here but I did get one once in a cage trap it was without a doubt the STINKYIST thing i have ever caught


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I like the cat pictures timeout good to see the work and pictures you fellas put in as volunteers and it makes a difference.
But it's a continuous process and one that doesn't have a let up at this point in time, at least where I am and suspect where you are.
I encourage you to find others of like mindedness who can find others of like mindedness.
A family member a local! because some of us have health things and end up having the wrong timeout
Iam having a run at the moment, night shooting and fumigation of rabbit warrens during a day and my son trapping and setting up new trap lines and bait stations.
The forum is a mix of people that aren't as dedicated as the ones who contribute here or on what little pesties! Dundee's post.
Even I have runs and mostly come and go from the forum! I may not be here, but be sure I am out there! not so much in the rain these days,at least I can pick and choose what weather I work in now.
I don't know how to put a link to the post on carbon monoxide in rabbit control, it's work in progress and on the smaller block's that can't be shot, its working.
Yet to be tried on rats that have gone into a locals bird cages and set up their warren's under the concrete floor.
Camera and baiting has shown large Norway rats, hopefully this week we will try this method as well.
Rats are more likely to come out as they will react to the carbon! As for the rabbit! It just goes to sleep down in the warren.
KH

Yep, the Steve Allen’s are very effective @kukuwai , unfortunately mine is sat idol at present as I have changed jobs and no longer have my trapping round on private land it helped take over 40 cats in the 2 and half years I was there most going to cage traps, which is what I had mot of.

Still have my rounds on public land but the S A takes no prisoners so am a bit paranoid of a foxy or Jack Russell sticking its snout in, don’t need the drama.

Looking forward to getting round them this weekend. 👍

Here is your carbon monoxide link @Kiwi-Hunter -

https://www.nzhuntingandshooting.co....control-62058/

Bloody rabbits are driving me mad at home digging up the lawn - fortunately up in the Park - Council have taken over control with a night shooting contractor who at long last has purchased a thermal scope - so its no longer coming out of my pest control budget
We rarely find rabbit holes - so many rocky banks where they seem to live they don't need to waste time digging
We have been lucky with good weather lately - but winter is coming - might take the shine off checking trap lines

Thanks timeout for the link, I know it's not quite in line with the post.
But someone may take up the idea on their patch.
It's affective with out using more serious poisons! which the application has to be handled right.
KH

Great posts fellas.
Just snuck over the 100 mustelid tails for the swamp comp. frightening what happens in a mast year.

Good effort sore head stoat.
KH

Carbon monoxide.
Yet to be tried on rats that have gone into a locals bird cages and set up their warren's under the concrete floor.
Camera and baiting has shown large Norway rats, hopefully this week we will try this method as well.
Rats are more likely to come out as they will react to the carbon.
This fellow was trapped today.
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