Thread: Bird Predator Control

Just when I thought we had them beat - back they come again!
It has been fairly quiet around the trap lines for the last month - hard to find a victim - my line in the Park has around 40 traps - most sites have bait stations with Ditrac bait - hopeless stuff!
Wet weather and wet tracks have kept me away for nine days - so out on a mission yesterday - four hours and 8000 steps (on my Samsung Gear) and I cleared eight bodies - seven very rotten and one fresh under an A24
Hard work keeping your breakfast down clearing a rotten body full of maggots - if you don’t clear the Snap-E traps properly they are hard to reset - also frustrating having to clear all mouldy chocolate and blue bait - stuff those baits - I am going to stick to GN possum paste in future - very stable and wont go mouldy
My Mate got five on his line on Wednesday - also a great result - fifty on the 2018 spreadsheet now - so I guess we are heading back to a 500 target this year
Birdlife is improving noticeably - my simple measure is Quail on the ground - good numbers of families - most with six to eight well grown chicks - also seeing good numbers of Pheasants and other native birds
If you game bird hunters want to improve your results - you need to control cats, rats, hogs, possums and mustilids - in that order - don’t waste money on gas traps - Victor Pro and Snap-E traps do the job well
Looking forward to the Swamp Comp results Guys - example of a nine day rotten rat below -