Thread: Bird Predator Control

Well done, me too

Good effort by all 2000 tails.
Interesting stats 2000 predators at 1 kill per day per year = 730 000 kills saved

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A nice surprise in the mailbox tonight - thanks for your info on the prize draw @kukuwai, @FatLabrador and @Dundee
Fantastic competition that H&F run each year - thanks Andy Tannock - 2000 mustilid tails - that must make a huge difference to game bird survival

I like to mount traps on ramps - fence post stays or just old branches leaning on a tree - I like the concept of a trapped rat pissing down the ramp - I am sure that it is a powerful attractant for the next victim that walks past - might be a rat, mustilid or even Harry the hedgehog. I can hear you saying that Harry is a ground based predator - but I have caught them in a timms trap 1m up a 30 degree sloped ramp.
I got Harry and his mate on Tuesday - one on a ramp and one in a Doc250 - what a mess 9 days between checking traps can make
Three of us are currently trapping about 50 acres in the Park - some intensively and some sparsely - the 2018 spreadsheet has 83 victims - 5 possums, 7 hogs, 1 cat and 70 rats - the bloody cat managed to get inside a Doc250! - this time last year our 2017 spreadsheet had 62 victims - 10 possums and 52 rats
So even with intensive trapping and poisoning - we are really just running a control system to stop predator numbers from exploding - a bit demoralising really - but we have to keep going
Trapping can be a lonely business - but for the past three months I have had a new Mate who was keen to learn the trade - Girls can do anything - she pulled Harry out of the Doc250 on Tuesday but I couldn’t get her to clean out the live bait on the bottom - she can even set a Doc250