The Bream Bay College team headed up to Pukekauri on Thursday last week for their turn to check the traps. It was another stunning blue sky day and the temperature was much milder than the last time we were up there! Jacque from Enviroschools came up with us to see what we’ve been getting up […]
OTP trip 2
This was Te Ara Kahika/ OTP’s 2nd solo trip to the dam this term. It included Piper, Carter, Jayden and Scott. We caught 2 rats and a mouse. We set up a new trap at station 1 for possums. Scott drilled the possum box into a plank of wood to attach it to a tree. […]
Ruakākā School – Operation Trapping 2023
Ruakākā School visited Pukekauri today to check out the traps and see if we could spot the elusive Weweia. It was a successful trip, the sun was shining and we had two traps with rats in them. One of our rat traps had a little visitor hiding in it, a baby weta had decided it […]
OTP tactical trappers
Hi we are Kirwan, Georgia, Carter, Scott, Piper and Jayden from One Tree Point School. Today was our turn to check the traps as the Pukekauri Dam. Sadly, we only caught one rat, which appeared to have been trapped only by its foot (a bit of a sad end for that rat). During our trip […]
Last trip for the term
Today was our last trip to Pukekauri dam with the students before the holidays. It turned out to be a very interesting visit! We began our trap check and reached station 7, where Steve and I had left a rat in our DOC200 the previous week in the hopes of luring something else in. However, […]
Coming together as a Kahui Ako
One of the great things about this project has been working with our teachers, principals and students from across our four Bream Bay Kahui Ako schools. We had an article done by the Northern Advocate which was published today. Full article: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/news/pest-management-project-brings-together-bream-bay-kura/EGV6NBZIJVDPNNJ5WMIY6CAKI4/
Where have all the pests gone?
After visiting the site again on Thursday, we had only caught 1 mouse in the traps this week and I only collected 1 mouse the previous week. We discussed potential reasons for the lull in catches: change in weather, old bait, other predators could have some possible influence. We changed out all the baits on […]
Return to the bush
After being rained off for our first return trip to the dam, Whaea Jess and members of Patuharakeke have been checking and clearing the traps weekly. We found that if the traps were not cleared weekly then the bait would be gone, the kills would be degraded and the predators would get to suspect of […]