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 […]
Project Day 1: Into the bush
Our first trip to Pukekauri dam, involved some lugging of heavy traps, peanut butter and oatmeal fingers, and spending some moments of silence listening to the bush in order to identify what birds are around us. We learnt that if our trapping is successful then we will see a rise in many of our common […]