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I don't think they are there. They aren't eating or leaving prints or pellets.
I had thought helicopters were a possible explanation but if they've shot them out to temporary local extinction then...

They're doing a "Battle for the birds" a bit east of this at the moment (Rough creek / Lake Cristobel).
Is there a place we can look up past poison ops say 10 years back ?

I went up from the pass a short way southwards along the tops a couple of weeks ago.

We saw very little deer sign.

Here's the area. This is the Maruia valley looking downstream; the road runs...