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Monday, August 29, 2011

Tooth and claw

Across Southland the mallards are nesting. Unless you look though, you'll not notice them, so secretive are they and so well camouflaged their nests. This one was in the middle of our West Plains orchard, amongst the cock'sfoot grasses. The stoat that ate every one of the eggs wasn't fooled though.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Have you tried trapping the Stoat Robert? We've got a stoat problem around our area (and we're just up the way from a Kiwi recovery area)with Stoats seen during daylight.

If you've got any hints on trapping them I'd be interested in hearing.

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