Thread: Bird Predator Control

Good work @time out. Just saw a stoat in the garden run as fast as i could got the 20 gauge but he buggered off. Do stoats live in trees or on the ground?

Stoats live on the ground
I have never had much luck on mustilids FatLabrador despite operating a DOC250 continuously for a couple of years at the farm and five of them continuously for a couple of years at the Park - just not many around this area
I am not a religious person - but my trapping bible is always close by - check out from Page 9
http://www.landcare.org.nz/files/file/1110/pest
Best bait will be fresh rabbit and maybe some eggs in your DOC200 - if you get one - keep setting it to clean out the family - my Mate got five recently - maybe get them used to the box before you set it

Swamp Comp Prize
@Dundee - great you can now see in the dark with your lantern - I got a Roman one man bivy tent from the Swamp Comp - but I don’t plan on sleeping out by myself so it may not be useful to me
I really appreciate Hunting & Fishing running the Swamp Comp each year - it encourages hunters to get out and kill bird predators - which is one of my interests
The tent has turned up and I am going to send it down to @Sean - I hope he can use it - he deserves something for all the work he does on predator control
I wish I had one for @FatLabrador - maybe next year young fella - you are doing a great job
I have got my first tail in the freezer for this year - a ferret - hope to get a few more
I am still getting a few rats around the traps - checked a line of 10 possum and 15 rat traps on Friday between downpours - just a couple of rats - bastards must stay under a log on wet nights - this silly buggar looked like your drowned rat @Dundee - but he has steel around his neck

Originally Posted by time out

Swamp Comp Prize
@Dundee - great you can now see in the dark with your lantern - I got a Roman one man bivy tent from the Swamp Comp - but I don’t plan on sleeping out by myself so it may not be useful to me
I really appreciate Hunting & Fishing running the Swamp Comp each year - it encourages hunters to get out and kill bird predators - which is one of my interests
The tent has turned up and I am going to send it down to @Sean - I hope he can use it - he deserves something for all the work he does on predator control
I wish I had one for @FatLabrador - maybe next year young fella - you are doing a great job
I have got my first tail in the freezer for this year - a ferret - hope to get a few more
I am still getting a few rats around the traps - checked a line of 10 possum and 15 rat traps on Friday between downpours - just a couple of rats - bastards must stay under a log on wet nights - this silly buggar looked like your drowned rat @Dundee - but he has steel around his neck

That would be awesome, thanks

Originally Posted by time out

Swamp Comp Prize
@Dundee - great you can now see in the dark with your lantern - I got a Roman one man bivy tent from the Swamp Comp - but I don’t plan on sleeping out by myself so it may not be useful to me
I really appreciate Hunting & Fishing running the Swamp Comp each year - it encourages hunters to get out and kill bird predators - which is one of my interests
The tent has turned up and I am going to send it down to @Sean - I hope he can use it - he deserves something for all the work he does on predator control
I wish I had one for @FatLabrador - maybe next year young fella - you are doing a great job
I have got my first tail in the freezer for this year - a ferret - hope to get a few more
I am still getting a few rats around the traps - checked a line of 10 possum and 15 rat traps on Friday between downpours - just a couple of rats - bastards must stay under a log on wet nights - this silly buggar looked like your drowned rat @Dundee - but he has steel around his neck

Good to see you only check those traps once the tide goes out