Thread: Bird Predator Control

It's a hard call, but I will go on record and give my two cents.
Firstly some of the areas I have to deal with ! Have people who for there own good reasons release domestic cats.
The cat will find a home or go ferrell very quickly and because he knows human behavior and has been dropped off in a box or cage he will not go near it, unless needing food, so there's a narrow window of opportunity for capture.
I have trail cam footage of this type of ferrell cat that won't go near a cage and it doesn't matter how I've tried to disguise it.
So that leaves only a few options.
The main one I use is shooting ! But it's the right time right place stuff !which isn't always going to happen.
I have at present two litters and minus a couple of parents in a 240 acre area.I haven't seen them for two weeks and I am almost every day looking for them.
So this is what some people will be offended with! is my second choice of capture.!
But it hasn't let me down, leg hold possum traps are still used and are considered humane so I narrow an area like you would a possum and staple a leg of rabbit to a tree, I use at least three traps in such away that if it jumps out of one its into another and I don't mind taking its feet out of a couple either.I usually shot them from distance, because as soon as they see you they explode into a fur ball and I have had one that wasn't held well break out, on that occasion I was quick enough, but I don't take them for granted that they'll hold tight.
There are others methods but the above should do for success.
In another post I am running cages and haven't said about this method!buts its deployed aswell.
Cats are a sensitive subject and it draws a lot of dysfunctional behaviour from cat owners on the disposal of cats.
I saw this week for the first time in over twenty years a wood pigeon resting in a tree in the area I am trapping, It was low down on the branches.
Hopefully I can remove its predators and give it a chance of ongoing residence.
As a hunter a dead soundless bush isn't the same as life flying around and the sound of living !as I move slowly taking in all smells and sounds.
It's just something I can't put here on paper to any depth of the imagination.
KH