This morning at 9:15am, a group of us from Enrich went out bush walking at Seaward Bush. We met Tim there and his friend Alfredo. We went off into the bush to see what had happened to the wax tags and traps we put out the week before. Unfortunately, I wasn't there for the first week but I managed to catch up on all the information. 

There was a few wax tags with bite marks on them. A possum's bite marks are 4-5mm long. A rat's bite marks are about 2mm long. Tim also showed us how to put up possum traps. When we were carrying them we had to watch they didn't trap our hands! In each of the traps we put up there was a piece of apple. Tim assured us that no other pests like ferrets would want to get into the possum traps because they would rather eat meat. 

For each trap we found we recorded it in our notebook. We put R for rodent, P for possum or a 0 if there was nothing there. Even though we found that nothing had been caught in the box trap there was plenty of rat and possum bite marks to look at on the wax tags. Along the way we found some fresh possum pooh. That satisfied us that possums were definitely around somewhere. 

We were back from the trip by about 11:30. I had great fun today at Seaward bush! I can't wait to go back next week to check our traps.   

Environment Southland/Seaward Bush

Hola! 

We have gone further with our Environment projects today.  Two experts from Environment Southland called Tim and Julie came to visit us at Enrich.  They talked to us about all the pests running around Seaward Bush. They told us about different types of traps to catch different types of pests. He brought in some stuffed pests to show us. There were a weasel, 2 stoats 3possums a ferret and a rubber Tasmanian Devil. 

Next week we are going to go to Seaward bush to have an explore around and put up some wax tags to see what pests are there, by looking at the bite marks on the wax. I can't wait! 

Cartooning

I have had so much fun learning about cartooning! Katie took the Cartooning group and showed us some of Stu Duval's cartooning such as, S man, 9 man, 4 ma'am, 5-o the dog, and so many more! All of the cartoons that we saw were just numbers and letters jazzed up a bit to make a face! Here are the cartoons that I have drawn.

See if you can find the numbers and letters! Take a look at Stu Duval's website: www.studuval.co.nz.