Another rat - Video. 27th October

Kari's video about rat trapping

The positive effects of our trapping programme! By Chelsea Traill

 The Junior group of the wetland team checking a rat trap. 

 
Measuring and sexing for data recording.

The Hurupaki wetland enviro team has made a lot of progress in making our wetland improve with our wild life. Now that the warmer seasons have come,we have caught three rats in two days and two possums also in two days. We were also lucky to spot eight little ducklings swimming with their mother in the pond.

By Chelsea Traill

Mother Duck and her eight ducklings. 

OUR FIRST POSSUM!!

We caught our first possum today in the wetland.  Miss Tyson had to work hard to get it out of the trap because it's teeth were clenched around the bar.
It was a girl and she was 76cm long.  Thank you for the traps, Mr Henderson.

The planting of our butterfly garden continues

We are slowly filling up the space in our Butterfly garden.

 

Splitting native grasses with Jacque

On the 22nd September Jacque Knight came to show us how to split native grasses.  Jacque is an Enviroschools facilitator, who grows many rare species of native plants and trees.  She has kindly donated the grasses for us to plant around our wetland.