Thread: Bird Predator Control

Originally Posted by time out

I don’t have the experience to answer your question @sore head stoat – I could count my mustilid kill numbers on one hand – but one thing I do know about ferrets and cats – patience is a virtue! – you know the buggars are around but you just can’t catch them – but they usually make a fatal mistake
I like the concept of moving trap boxes slightly and kicking the ground clean so they can see something has changed – but most of my trap tunnels are fixed on roots or branches – so they always look the same – moving rat boxes successfully conflicts with the often held belief that rats are neophobic animals – not in my experience – they seem to be curious
Some of us are still trapping around our street – we have 280 entries in the PFBOP system so I would guess that is well over 300 kills. About two weeks back - one of our neighbours who looks down onto the estuary spotted a ferret running around on their lawn in daylight – so I put a cage down there with a fresh rabbit leg on the rear mesh – we got a cat first night – then another cat – then nothing – both released unharmed – it took about ten days to trip up the ferret last night – I left a leg in the cage and a tail in the freezer – maybe he will have a mate. It is good that we got him as there were 18 fabulous Royal Spoonbills sitting near the cage yesterday – they live around the estuary so we need to make it safe for nesting this year
So at last I have an entry for the swamp comp – pitty they don’t take cat tails!
I love to see the Fenn traps in action – they don’t take prisoners! – well done @Orchrist

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I sure hope you rubbed its smelly bum all around the trap.......that will often get its mates...we managed 5 stoats in a week from same trap that way.