Thread: Plagues of Rats and Mice

Well I've been working from Dunedin for several weeks now,I've been for my morning walk around the hill to stretch the ole legs, washed me truck polished the wheels all ready for another week pounding the highways of the South Island ,so now I've got nothing to do except have a ramble on here.
I've been very intrigued by these reports of plague numbers of rats in the bush and now mice as well,large numbers of dead rats washed up on west coast beaches , some say killed by 1080 but apparently not according to Doc, some say they drowned but I would've thought rats are good swimmers .
I'm reminded of a roar trip into the north western Ruahines ,bout 4or 5 yrs ago been hunting same general area for 10 yrs now, this patictular year we had plagues of mice , they were everywhere,into our tucker ,running over us during the night, it didn't matter if we were down in creek or up on the ridges, they were there
The next year camping in the same spots ,not a skeerick ,zilch no sign of the blighters and hardly noticed any in recent trips either .
So I'm wondering if it's ole Mother Nature ,she decides things are a bit out of whack and put things back in balance, if there's that many they must run out of feed pretty quickly and add in a few extreme weather events ,snow ,rain ,freezing temps maybe they don't last long anyway.
Anyway that's enough rambling from me . Cheers