Thread: Bird Predator Control

Very little to report Kukuwai - got a flu that has knocked me over for a week or so - but back into it today
At the Park - a month or so back - I changed all my Kness and Gorilla trap lures over to Nara plugs in the hope they would work better in the rain - must be sixty of them in service and got just two rats in about a month - wish I had done more research as I now know others that don’t rate them - they lose their smell too quick in the outside environment - maybe better in commercial buildings - either the rats are all dead or they don’t like Nara
I decided to box a line of ten Kness traps to see if the rats will come in on possum paste - I built ten new trap boxes to put up a boundary line in the bush at the Park - a wall of steel traps with yummy possum paste in nice warm boxes - 30m apart - put them out last Tuesday so will give them a week before I check them - stuff the Nara plugs - I hope possum paste pulls them in
I have put out six new A24s at the Park - been out for a month or more for two lousy rats - I don’t rate chocolate lure even if it is in an ALP - I have changed two over to possum paste a week or so back - checked them today and one kill at one site and two big rats at the other site -so that is five rats on A24s - I will change them all over to possum paste next week - but they don’t do possum paste in an ALP - so will mix them with olive oil so they dribble - I have noticed that most of the chocolate lure gets down to the trigger and glugs up in a ball - so I am not sure that is going to work well for six months unless there is an influx of rats that lick the trigger clean
I am also in the process of covering all my exposed traps with coreflute open ended boxes - a bit flimsy but will keep the rain off the trap and stop the lure from being washed away
I checked about 20 stations today where I have First Strike bait in tea bags on wires in large Philproof ground mounted stations - three new servings of tea bags to date - bloody bags are strewn all around the place - not sure if it is rats or maybe some possums - but they must be feeling sick
Photobucket has got me screwed at present - so I cant do any posts with pictures until I sort out an alternative service provider
Great that you are doing well on predator control Kukuwai - I love the harriers flying over the A24s - they are clever birds