Thread: A Day At Work With Dad

I was running a touch late to work the other day and the young fulla asked if he could come. Why not, something different for an 8 year old and it was not going to be super strenuous. Sometimes in life you have to seize opportunities that come up as kids grow up far too quickly!

First task on arrival was filling up a line of bait stations for possums and checking some DoC 200s and 250s





Some "trophies" were found and secured in his pocket to bring home, much to Mum's disgust.



Along with some evidence of predation on the side of a track a few cats had been spotted by some hunters over the roar and had also popped up on a couple of trail cameras. We set some Possum Masters baited with meat with intentions of thinning the population (they caught 2 in the first 2 nights).





We then checked and rebaited some Possum traps.



We then went for a walk and deployed some more trail cameras for deer and pest monitoring.



Daylight disappeared and we walked the last half an hour back to the vehicle in the dark.
Fair to say both the young fulla and the pup were well and truly sound asleep when we arrived home.
A good education day out learning about native flora and fauna and the species within that need to be managed to create a balance.