Trap in hedgrow

[eeyore]

Originally Posted by Gill Catton

Oh wait sorry I mis read - in what sense are these traps? when you describe it as like a mouse trap do you mean it has an arm that would snap down onto a board? I have seen squirrel traps a bit like giant mousetraps but these are usually really quite big

if you meant that they are snap traps as gill describes i suppose they could be fenn traps set in tunnel structures to catch either rats or mustiledae - but i thought you meant mouse traps as in a longworth live trap

A picture would go a long way to clarifying and identifying these me thunks

edit: this is a longworth trap - is that the sort of thing you are talking about

[thunder]

Originally Posted by eeyore

if you meant that they are snap traps as gill describes i suppose they could be fenn traps set in tunnel structures to catch either rats or mustiledae - but i thought you meant mouse traps as in a longworth live trap

A picture would go a long way to clarifying and identifying these me thunks

edit this is a longworth tap - is that the sort of thing you are talking about

But you wouldn't put bedding in a trap built to kill, and kayleigh said they had bedding.

Agree that picture is needed.

Thanks also eeyore for clarification about the two hour business - I knew it couldn't be true, for the reasons you state.

thunder

[eeyore]

unless the bedding is a lure to draw them in ? or ineptly applied camoflage ? - all a bit odd

[Kayleigh]

My son took some photos with his phone as soon as he has downloaded them and sent them to me I will post them. The traps are made of wood and look like they have a draw I didn't see a spring but there was bait inside a tube or hollow stick that may or may not be poison. They look a bit like the bottom part of the trap shown. Its just one long box.

[Dan Salter]

U said the one you investigated , a dropping fell out? this would indicate that things can come and go as they wish? unless the lucky so and so got in and out without trigering anything?

id like to think its Gills "Dormouse" trap/accomodation/nesting/ survey idea.

Dan

[Kayleigh]

Originally Posted by Dan Salter

U said the one you investigated , a dropping fell out? this would indicate that things can come and go as they wish? unless the lucky so and so got in and out without trigering anything?

id like to think its Gills "Dormouse" trap/accomodation/nesting/ survey idea.

Dan

Not a dropping a pellet as in food like what you use for rat poison.

[Gill Catton]

Originally Posted by Kayleigh

Not a dropping a pellet as in food like what you use for rat poison.

was it blue to indicate poison? Otherwise sometimes such tubes are erected and baited in the hope that some small animal eats and leaves behind droppings or hair (sometimes double sided sticky tape is stuck to the inside of the tube to cath hairs) that then identifies what animals are around.

[Kayleigh]

Originally Posted by Gill Catton

was it blue to indicate poison? Otherwise sometimes such tubes are erected and baited in the hope that some small animal eats and leaves behind droppings or hair (sometimes double sided sticky tape is stuck to the inside of the tube to cath hairs) that then identifies what animals are around.

I'm not sure my son saw it. It dropped out of a hollow stick into some nettles.

[hachidori]

Trip-style traps (like longworths) are placed at least 18cm above the ground in harvest mouse surveys. They are like longworths but more sensitive as the harvest mouse is very light and won't often trigger a longworth.

Harvest mice are rarely on the ground, so normal trap placing doesn't work for them.