Thread: Bird Predator Control

Looking in the window on a rainy day nope none of you are getting in.

I have been checking a few lines in my exercise Park up the road - I can just about see a possum in a trap from my front windows - accompanied by my wife and dog so I am fairly safe
I had a three week break for leg surgery so the rat traps are a disaster zone - tripped and scavenged - the odd part head and some fur is best evidence of a kill
Hogs in doc250s - yuk - it’s been a while since possums came over the gully and into the danger zone - but they now seem to be on the move - a bad decision for about six of them recently - Sentinels are always ready and waiting - one trap got torn off a tree a month or so back so he must have been a big one - I can confirm for you @Dead Rat - that your Flipping Timmy does the biz - even with dried out apple - but as an experiment - I have mounted it a bit lower on the tree and fitted a Connovation lure tube on the bait rod - the same flavour that I use on the Sentinels - I love the smell of aniseed - still leaving the possum with a choice of a Timms on the stump or the Timmy on the tree
Mindie cant understand why I leave dead possums up a tree - too high for her to reach or she would cart it back to me - just realised why she is slow to follow me off a possum trap site - little buggar likes the blue stuff I plaster on the tree and licks it off
Always amazes me how a rat gets into a doc200 and gets killed on the way out - what lousy luck
I am still running about six boxes around the street perimeter track - getting a few mice and a rat every day - got a big Norway a few days back - bloody mice in the garage have got me beat - but it was cold and wet this morning and pretty sure he ran back outside

Mice in the garage or shed,, get some of those "take no prisoners" victor wooden base mouse traps with the yellow plastic treadle, problem solved.

Is it a Shag? Its not a Weka.

Level 3 and i went and cleared my high country trap line today as they are in my region/ district. They had been out for 5 weeks.

First line i did was 11 traps and filled 7 of them with mustelids 5 stoats and 2 weasels in various states of decay...2 of the empty traps had been tipped over by possums ? and were never going to catch. Some bastard animal had eaten the back half off 3 of the animals tails and all gggrrrrr lol.

Next line of 50 traps and in the first dozen traps i was on fire getting another 5 mustys, (the stoats in these traps were quite freshly caught) and 2 rats and then it all slowed down getting another 6 mustys and another 2 rats from the balance of the traps.

Anyone else get out today ?

The chook thief, was active and hadn't seen what was going down. My first reaction was a cat.
So the cat traps went out but no success. Then one morning I saw the shadow of what it might be.
Made a feed tray and a leg hold, two days passed and kept the hens locked up.
On the third day there was no resurrection for the murdering thief,just taken for relocation.
KH

Finally Covid restrictions, work and tides aligned to allow me and my boys to go and peel some critters out of my estuary traps after 7 weeks.
mumified cat

cat pancake
And finally a cat in a cat trap
All up 4 Ship Rats, 2 Hedgehog, 2 weasel and surprisingly 6 cats ( 5 in doc 200’s)
Bloody good to be back out there.

If i could, I would 'double like' that mate.

Awesome stuff.

Looks like a nice day too. Lets hope we are looking at the back of covid

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From memory it was a mix of rabbit or liver, have caught a couple before on separate occasions but this was unreal, amazing how they get in ............. but they don’t get out!

Hello I'm new to this forum, just enjoying the photos and advice. this is a test to put up a photo. I'm up in South Head on the Kaipara

Welcome to the Forum @BillyXmas546 if your gonna post in the other threads they appreciate it if you post something in the introductions thread. But a dead ferret is a good ferret so you are all good here How did you get it?

Welcome to the forum @BillyXmas546 - I wouldn’t want to be a predator around your trap lines - looking forward to seeing some of your trapping systems
I have done three trips around the Quarry in the last few days - devoid of victims in the traps but I am sure they are getting dragged away - the only body I found was a rat in a Doc200
I have been trying out a D Rat trap around my street line - it seems quite powerful and has an easy operating handle on the side - swing the handle up to reset and it drops the rat out on the ground for the next one to have a feed

Thankyou Sparrow and Timeout, the ferret was a couple of years ago (we just doing a test run with photos). Some wanker had a fitch farm up here and released them when it went arse up, I was trapping a lot of them in cages with blue stuff on apples (probably following rat smell) in Timms with fresh rabbit bait in doc 200s and 250s with rabbit and also in tunnels, it was quite exciting then I ran out of them, probably the rabbit population shrank with the calicivirus. I've 5 or 6 trail cameras and have only filmed one since. If I could catch another live one Id keep it and use its bedding in most of my traps. Today's possum - I really rate these Possum Masters very versatile they will catch almost all pests

How lucky do you get , no not me...

I checked a line of my high country traps yesterday. The week before i had done another line up there where in 1 trap i had caught a freshly killed rat. Lets use this as bait i thinks to myself. I put the rat in a Doc 200 set up and checked it as i was going home yesterday. Bloody hell the box has been stolen as it wasnt where it should of been, then i think nah it wont of been stolen as they would of walked past 2 other traps which were still in place. So i have a scramble thru the matagouri [which is always loads of fun] and there is the box 10m away upside down with the egg inside but Mr rat gone... How blimmin lucky, I know there is a feral cat hanging around but couldnt believe it had the luck to go in an upside down trap box completely missing the treadle.. That particular trap has never caught anything in the 2 years it has been there despite being in a great location... put a rat in there and .... not quite a cigar but fingers crossed it will be next time. I have been catching a few mice in my shed and am putting them in an old freezer to use as bait, look out cat !..

Seems we are in winter catch mode now with not lots of activity, I am starting to use a few bits of salted road kill pukeko as the heat [lack of it] and flies wont affect the meat baits to much instead of eggs. The eggs freeze and the shells crack letting mice have a feed .. I will go back in a month if i can wait that long lol.

A “bloody” big Norway that was running around our street adjacent to an avocado orchard
Just checking out some trap options under the hedge
He had a good choice of food on the site - peanut butter in a D Rat, chocolate in an A24, peanut butter in a trusty old Victor and a day old rat laying under the D Rat from yesterday
Bad move - he checked out the Victor - brain dead so he pulled out and up on top of the box - then crawled away about 500mm
A big Norway takes a bit of killing - but may depend where the kill bar hit him