Thread: Bird Predator Control

She didn’t notice anything odd – maybe the way it was screwed up trying to escape the noose – before rigor mortis set in

set snare?

Yep it sounded good from what I caught but I missed the beginning and that held the story

All the best with the hip repair job time out

A learning experience about our compost bin – tucked away beside some garden shrubs. Decided to shift it and cut some shrubs back. Found about half a barrow load of fresh dirt under a shrub on the back side of the bin. Got to work with the chainsaw and cut a few branches off – then saw an enormous rat run out of a hole under the bin and off to the boundary. Pulled the compost bin off the pile and found a network of tunnels through and under the compost bin. Put a couple of traps in the garden and one in the base of the newly positioned bin – he came back and tripped the bin trap but escaped. I put a fenn6 in a black Phillproof tunnel beside the boundary – sure enough – last night he took a walk on the rusty fenn6 foot plate – no escape from a fenn6. I reckon he is a size 8 Norway plus a big tail. I guess he enjoyed a warm dry winter with fresh food every day – he taught me a lot about compost bin rats. But what I don’t know is how he shifted so much dirt – how do they do it?

Well done Time Out .... but how many more down the hole?

there is allot of pleasure removing predators like cats. you will find the more you remove the better the bird life will be - especially those pheasants

Just to show you what can be achieved with intensive trapping around a 70 acre community reserve – approx. 200 trap sites – targeting all the animals seen on the graph below – we use approx. 160 Kness snap-e rat traps
A team of four still doing the rounds every week – just four kills in July and seven kills in August. The 2021 year to date total of 314 pests. Mainly rats but a good number of the other prolific bird killers – hogs continue to invade around the perimeter and threaten our Quail population. The cats were seen and reported by visitors and were quickly removed. One ferret in a Doc250 was quickly followed by its Mate in a nearby Doc250.
Possum paste is still our trap lure of choice – the ants and cockroaches clean it out in a couple of days but the Cinnamon odour seems to persist in the bait cup and still trips up the odd rat
One of our team checks a line around our internal roads and gets good numbers of rats from the traps – and keeps bait stations supplied with Contrac poison, about six buckets so far this year - so we kill more rats than what shows in our kill numbers
We have been doing this level of pest control for about eight years – but they always come back
Rabbits are controlled by a Council night shooting contractor – so I don’t have the figures but they are now under reasonable control
For those that think that pest control is a simple task of setting up a few traps per hectare – sorry – they are smarter than we think – I have a variety of eight traps in my one acre back yard – all our neighbors have multiple traps – they don’t like mesh on boxes, or a GN A24 – I mostly trip them up running over a Fenn6 in an open Phillproof tunnel – they keep coming up from the nearby estuary

Giant Eff up.
But honestly, is anyone surprised ?

Here's my Starling trap.

Originally Posted by SL600

Here's my Starling trap.Attachment 210158

HW97k. A recent one judging from the stock. Congrats! The starlings will hate you.

Fandangled trap seems to be working as it should. Pretty cool really !!

Nailing them two at a time



Logged onto it this morning, not surprised it hasn't encountered many possums as we only get one once and a while but it seems to be accounting for a few rats



A mate has one and he is in an area with heaps of possums. Has caught 24 so far, even got 2 last night. His dogs getting a bit fat

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A mate has 3 or 4 of these A220s at his work and the record is 4 possums in the one night in the one trap. Great trap

They say the smell of a mustelid is the best lure for a mustelid.....

Its amazing how many times I have done this now.

Caught a weasel and then left it on the top of the box (minus its tail of course) only to return a day or to later to another one in the trap.



Interestingly the bait in this trap was a fake egg so they do work Well enough too fool the first one at least



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Originally Posted by kukuwai

They say the smell of a mustelid is the best lure for a mustelid.....

Its amazing how many times I have done this now.

Caught a weasel and then left it on the top of the box (minus its tail of course) only to return a day or to later to another one in the trap.



Interestingly the bait in this trap was a fake egg so they do work Well enough too fool the first one at least



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I had one run in front of the truck when taking dog for a walk down river last night. Nasty little f%^kers!