Thread: Bird Predator Control

Not a lot to report on local predator control – predator free seems a long way off
We are still getting around 40 rats and 4 possums at the Park every month in 200 odd traps – a total change from Goodnature Possum Paste to Goodnature Meat Lovers lure seems to have doubled our kill rates compared to the same period last year – insects seem to leave it on the traps and rats like seem to like it.
I run a couple of Fenn6 traps in slightly buried tunnels in the back garden – they are rusty old traps but the trigger is a small brass plate that is always sensitive – they keep on killing any rat or hog that walks through – no lure required.
I run a couple of old boxes on a track that runs down the side of our street to the estuary – one shows 95 kills and the other 93 kills in the past six years on the PFBOP recording system. Many of the rats that are trapped in those two boxes are very large Norways that seem to come up from the harbour estuary. The traps are rusty old Victor pros that often stun the rat in the box – they generally bleed out in the back end of the box. Often the Norways are trapped in pairs – one night after the other – I always leave the first kill on the top of the box to attract its mate.