The following series of incidents and images are from a local student who has been experimenting with the sound lure on their local farm and using it in conjunction with a Timms trap. As part of this sequence a possum is visible in the first photograph on the left. The possum investigates the area around where the trap is set and then activates the trap.
In this incident the sound lure was adjacent to the trap not inside the trap as is in some local deployed variation.
Following this successfull pest removal there was heighten actvity at the site as a number of possums interacated at the trap site. During this time the sound lure was still operating and additional possums were arriving at the sight (this has been witnessed before at various locations locally).
There were also additional activations from two other animals of note during the monitoring timeframe.
The first of which, shown in the third picture, is of a feral cat that was pulled into the activation area and spent time investigating the site and the location.
While we are not targetting feral cats at this location and it is not outside of the realms of possibility that the sound lure is responsible for this visit (it has been evident on numerous locations throughout trials that feral cats are showing interest in the noise being generated from the boxes or the sound lure).
The final photograph in the series shows a visit from a Hawk to a location on the same farm where another possum has been caught using a Timms trap with a sound lure in operation.
Shortly on this site we will be running a prolonged trial involving a double blind set up to montior and measure the effectiveness of the sound lure.
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