Monday, 19 March 2018 07:22
Boggy Pond April rounds
Last April, I was able to complete the servicing round down at Boggy Pond, Mathews and the Wairio Restoration Block. The total predators trapped there for the month was :
1 cat, 5 ferrets, 1 weasel, 9 rats, 29 hedgehogs, 6 mice and 1 hawk.
While there I GPS’d another eight potential trapping sites on the new bund wall that was recently created.
A Timms trap was missing from the trap site by the Bridge to No Where and a Timms/ DOC 250 was missing past the second bridge leading to the Viewing Hide. I suspect these have been stolen as they were there when I serviced the gear in February. These missing traps will be replaced after duck shooting season. I am wary that more may disappear during that time with the influx of hunters to the area.
Steve Playle.
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Issue 164
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