Thread: Bird Predator Control

Hard to be conclusive FL - but the first lot is gone - and the second lot is finished today - two of us are using it at the Park - we have sloshed a lot of the mix around the traps and in the back end of trap boxes - also heaps of flour mix blaze around the trap sites - downside is quite time consuming and going mouldy in the boxes in wet weather - still using possum paste on the trap
It is getting cleaned up by something pretty quickly - outside the trap boxes and kill rates in the boxes have improved a lot particularly along the boundary block where there is no control over the fence
We have got the 2017 numbers up to 343 a few days back - after more than two years with five Doc250s with rabbit bait - we just got our first stoat - in a Snap-E trap - on bloody peanut butter
We are losing a few rat bodies in trap boxes - two of the pictures were 90m apart on a steep track - I suspect it might be a cat or stoat - its too muddy for hedgehogs
I am going to have another cook up tomorrow - a possum trapper Mate has got me a 10kg box of outdated freeze dried fruit pieces - human food grade - I will mix it with peanut butter/margarine etc - the possum guys are scattering it in the flour blaze round traps and reckon possums love it - well I do anyway
We try to catch rats using a bit of lure on a trap and hope that a rat will get interested enough to stop and have a feed - I reckon I must increase my chances significantly with a heap of lure around the trap site - homemade lure is cheap when you consider the time involved in running trap lines - I burn up three to four hours each trip now - I want results - increased kill numbers or the job under control