May Monitoring

On the 6th of June the two transects lines of tracking tunnels were again baited with peanut butter. The weather is cool but sunny; there was a low of zero overnight.

The tunnels were checked on the 7th of June 2016 at 3:00 pm. Hedgehog numbers were down from the last monitoring; only one hedgehog was identified from the peninsula line and none from the bund line. Are they starting to hibernate. Greater number of rats and mice tracks were observed in both tunnel lines. Maybe this is because the hedgehogs have not got to the bait allowing the rodents to access it.

Transect 1 - Bund
1 - no sign
2 - no sign
3 - no sign
4 - mice
5 - rat
6 - mice
7 - mice
8 - bait gone - not sure about prints
9 - mice
10 - invertebrate

Transect 2 - Peninsula
1 - rat
2 - no sign
3 - rat
4 - mice
5 - rat
6 - no sign
7 - rat
8 - no sign
9 - no sign
10 - hedgehog

Posted on 06 de junho de 2016, 08:40 AM by estuarytrust