Auckland Council Reps, Baiting and Setting Stoat traps

Nik and I met with Dave Galloway and Rebecca Kemp0 from Auckland Council who provided us with advice regarding weed and pest control and provided us with a variety of traps, including the temporary loan of a myna trap.  The preferred bait is apparently popcorn.  We had no success with our first attempt at trapping mynas but hope to be more successful with future trapping efforts.

In the afternoon we eco-sourced sedges and planted them along the stream edges along with some split flaxes.

We have added one more stoat to our tally (rather hard to identify in this photograph).

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