Best vid yet , helped a mate in Murapara open up a line , a few , hedgehog , way back , what will you do with most huts gone , enjoy the time down south can't wait for some vids
Cheers mate. The front country definitely has heaps of hedgehogs around. Bit sad about Te Urewera huts. A waste of an awesome resource! Still a few left. Whirinaki Forest is another awesome piece of bush that has some well maintained huts still available for the public to stay at.
Short sighted about the huts and a few other ideas. Wouldn't want to be a kokako etc in here now if some of the comments about the great leap forward protecting the bush are implemented. Will become even more NZ's biggest Noxious Animal farm, which with current pest increases fostered by DoC is quite an achievement. The pigeons there being gunshy speaks volumes. Removing the huts will have the effect of having every party putting in their own bivvys, so plastic shanty's collapsed & forgotten everywhere that there isn't one already.@@jbwild
What did you feed your dogs? They loved it whatever it was. Was there jellied cranberries in there? Just came across your interesting vid! Great seeing what you do! Am going to check out your other ones after this! Watching from the USA 🇺🇸
Thanks for the positive comment. It was rice, beetroot and tomatoes. Old canned food. They enjoyed it and still had good energy levels. Hope you enjoyed seeing a small piece of NZ native forest. Cheers
What block is it? Is it also aerial poisoned? Does seem the bush is in better condition than most seen around the country presently. If that pig was released there are some values to consider as a contractor, including a couple of legal ones. Any consequences are applied to all contractors etc, and often not appreciated. Early trials showed ground hunting had real difficulty getting pest numbers low enough to get a useful recovery response from vulnerable species. It doesn't take many pests to keep the natives under control or eradicate them. The traps were ok for slowing recovery of pests to problem levels after poison drops, enabling longer intervals sometimes. This also depends on the productivity of the forest, as pests respond to better habitat as well as the native species, and seedfall years disrupt everything. Trapping seems to have reduced Blue duck decline (& some other species). It will be interesting what is developed in the next few years, as progress has notably accelerated in sites Doc has been patched over by ZIP. The latter are notably quicker on the uptake of progressive ideas, and don't suffer from the self professed Cindy-like expertise/knowledge absolutely disdainfully understanding all things Conservation, thus ignoring some progressive ideas that emerge among the dross. To rediscover a few decades later with appropriate fanfare. Will be worth visiting some of the long term pest control sites when tripping around the Mainland. The variety of forest types is different from up north & comparisons will be interesting.
Morning mate, Whirinaki whio security site. Whirinaki Te Pua a Tane Conservation Park. Beautiful forest with plenty of bird life. We'll worth a visit if you are not familiar with it. Cheers Jacob
Interesting. Shot for venison part time for a few years up the top, pre & start of live capture helicopter days. Different bush then. Which creeks do the duck or other restoration projects cover? @@jbwild
Whirinaki River, Mangakahika and Moerangi streams, and a few other areas around Minginui all have good pest control networks setup and currently being worked. What huts/ areas were you frequenting when hunting? And was it culling, meat hunting or recreation? Cheers
Hautapu & Plateau Huts were usual bases, hunting the local fringe country mostly. Did a bit down Te Tehi/Te kohu when feeling keen, character building stuff carrying them out of there back to Pukeroa Burn. Was meat hunting. Are there still parakeets & kaka there? On a trip into ?Moerangi Hut (during its building among the wasps) was one of the few encounters with Blue Ducks encountered. Did a stint culling upper Marlborough around the same time & a few years pest control etc manager S Westland & elsewhere, it's still interesting. And frustrating to see (despite some advances), some major reversals of progress, species spread, the Doc human factor is erratic, crap still floats. And some managers now as ignorant or even more so than past, the few NZFS good ones (& DoC inherited the worst ones along with those who couldn't get away) are around retirement or gone or dead right now, Lou Sanson & Mike Slater were probably the last f that lot. If in S Westland visit the Moeraki & Copland. We did the former from 1986 & the latter from about 1988. Both started before the possum numbers peaked. The Landsborough is a poster child, major success there (saved the yellowheads, although certain social media stars would have you believe the 1080 killed them off). & the Whataroa is now an example of ZIP's current progress, & DoCs tahr protection success. Both those latter valleys are a bit more challenging for walking access. @@jbwild
Awesome! Te Tehi and Te Kohu both great areas. I've only explored the bottom sections of both, not the upper. Yes kakariki and kaka still present. I generally see/ hear them throughout my days up there. Cheers
Any small streams 1m wide or more generally hold resident ducks. They tend to have a larger territory than the ducks on the bigger rivers. The ducks will also push up the real small streams after heavy rain as they clear up quickly and provide food while the bigger streams and rivers are brown/ silted up.
And kill the dairy cows when they don’t let farmers on edge of forestry know. It’s sooooo amazing tbh 1080 is definitely the best thing to happen to New Zealand 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
1. 1080 works for ecological protection. Well proven. Significantly better & cheaper than trapping etc, where it is an acceptable technique. 2. Critics who highlight accidents or poor practice (like inaccurate application & accidental livestock kills) conveniently overlook a. Insurance isn't paid out if lIvestock is carelessly allowed or deliberately put into freshly poisoned sites where bait is still toxic. b. All neighbours, including farmers are clearly pre-notified of operation timing & precautions, & recorded, and it's difficult to miss the activities when it is distributed. c. slipping the cows back into the bush for a bit of illegal free grazing isn't rocket science. It's an own goal. d. Vastly more livestock are killed in mistake for deer by (k)hunters anywhere out of sight or late enough that might hide their illegal efforts. Even more so now night vision/thermal imaging has become widely available to these dangerous idiots. Fortunately social media facilitates collecting similar minded groups for mental health solace think tanks and rec chem supplement sharing to aid distorting their observations towards the chosen agenda. It's notable many hunters blindly accept clear falsehoods about this pest control method and its consequences, when they have never seen the problems they assert their reliable acquaintances apparently have irrefutable proof of. This does not deny operator error and poor practice, and accidents, do happen rarely. So does sabotage and illegal compromising of warning signs etc. by activists. @@GhostSlayer666
Good to see the pest control and that app is very clever. Your pup is heading in the right direction too.
Cheers mate
Excellent work and video JB wild,animals about,have good trip down south.
Thanks heaps. Deer are working hard for thier Kai at the moment. Appreciate the comments
Best vid yet , helped a mate in Murapara open up a line , a few , hedgehog , way back , what will you do with most huts gone , enjoy the time down south can't wait for some vids
Cheers mate. The front country definitely has heaps of hedgehogs around. Bit sad about Te Urewera huts. A waste of an awesome resource! Still a few left. Whirinaki Forest is another awesome piece of bush that has some well maintained huts still available for the public to stay at.
Short sighted about the huts and a few other ideas. Wouldn't want to be a kokako etc in here now if some of the comments about the great leap forward protecting the bush are implemented. Will become even more NZ's biggest Noxious Animal farm, which with current pest increases fostered by DoC is quite an achievement. The pigeons there being gunshy speaks volumes. Removing the huts will have the effect of having every party putting in their own bivvys, so plastic shanty's collapsed & forgotten everywhere that there isn't one already.@@jbwild
Dream job mate 👌 great success
Cheers mate, definitely awesome job. No complaints going to work during that contract
Really appreciate your work with the stoats etc.
Cheers mate, appreciate the feedback
Mean vid bro.. how good having the family out there doing it too , cheers
Thanks bro. Definitely lucky to have the kids out there now n then. Cheers
Cheers for the video keep up the awesome work. Much appreciated
Thanks mate appreciate the positive comment 👍
What did you feed your dogs? They loved it whatever it was. Was there jellied cranberries in there? Just came across your interesting vid! Great seeing what you do! Am going to check out your other ones after this! Watching from the USA 🇺🇸
Thanks for the positive comment. It was rice, beetroot and tomatoes. Old canned food. They enjoyed it and still had good energy levels. Hope you enjoyed seeing a small piece of NZ native forest. Cheers
Loved it!
Great work thanks for sharing
Thank you! Cheers!
Awesome bro
What block is it? Is it also aerial poisoned? Does seem the bush is in better condition than most seen around the country presently.
If that pig was released there are some values to consider as a contractor, including a couple of legal ones.
Any consequences are applied to all contractors etc, and often not appreciated.
Early trials showed ground hunting had real difficulty getting pest numbers low enough to get a useful recovery response from vulnerable species. It doesn't take many pests to keep the natives under control or eradicate them. The traps were ok for slowing recovery of pests to problem levels after poison drops, enabling longer intervals sometimes. This also depends on the productivity of the forest, as pests respond to better habitat as well as the native species, and seedfall years disrupt everything. Trapping seems to have reduced Blue duck decline (& some other species). It will be interesting what is developed in the next few years, as progress has notably accelerated in sites Doc has been patched over by ZIP. The latter are notably quicker on the uptake of progressive ideas, and don't suffer from the self professed Cindy-like expertise/knowledge absolutely disdainfully understanding all things Conservation, thus ignoring some progressive ideas that emerge among the dross. To rediscover a few decades later with appropriate fanfare.
Will be worth visiting some of the long term pest control sites when tripping around the Mainland. The variety of forest types is different from up north & comparisons will be interesting.
Morning mate, Whirinaki whio security site. Whirinaki Te Pua a Tane Conservation Park. Beautiful forest with plenty of bird life. We'll worth a visit if you are not familiar with it. Cheers Jacob
Interesting. Shot for venison part time for a few years up the top, pre & start of live capture helicopter days. Different bush then. Which creeks do the duck or other restoration projects cover? @@jbwild
Whirinaki River, Mangakahika and Moerangi streams, and a few other areas around Minginui all have good pest control networks setup and currently being worked. What huts/ areas were you frequenting when hunting? And was it culling, meat hunting or recreation? Cheers
Hautapu & Plateau Huts were usual bases, hunting the local fringe country mostly. Did a bit down Te Tehi/Te kohu when feeling keen, character building stuff carrying them out of there back to Pukeroa Burn. Was meat hunting. Are there still parakeets & kaka there? On a trip into ?Moerangi Hut (during its building among the wasps) was one of the few encounters with Blue Ducks encountered.
Did a stint culling upper Marlborough around the same time & a few years pest control etc manager S Westland & elsewhere, it's still interesting. And frustrating to see (despite some advances), some major reversals of progress, species spread, the Doc human factor is erratic, crap still floats. And some managers now as ignorant or even more so than past, the few NZFS good ones (& DoC inherited the worst ones along with those who couldn't get away) are around retirement or gone or dead right now, Lou Sanson & Mike Slater were probably the last f that lot.
If in S Westland visit the Moeraki & Copland. We did the former from 1986 & the latter from about 1988. Both started before the possum numbers peaked. The Landsborough is a poster child, major success there (saved the yellowheads, although certain social media stars would have you believe the 1080 killed them off). & the Whataroa is now an example of ZIP's current progress, & DoCs tahr protection success. Both those latter valleys are a bit more challenging for walking access. @@jbwild
Awesome! Te Tehi and Te Kohu both great areas. I've only explored the bottom sections of both, not the upper. Yes kakariki and kaka still present. I generally see/ hear them throughout my days up there. Cheers
Hay bro so cool to see you all out their
Cheers Chris. Definitely nice to have the family out there now n then. 3nights in the bush is my max these days. Get bloody lonely haha
Great work, thanks for your efforts, what app is that you have, i run a pest line and would find that helpful as.
NZ Trap App. Fairly easy to set up and load in trap location waypoints from GPS etc. Cheers
interesting to see the ducks in that little trib, how much time do the spend and how far do they go up? is the egg just a visual bait fake even?
Any small streams 1m wide or more generally hold resident ducks. They tend to have a larger territory than the ducks on the bigger rivers. The ducks will also push up the real small streams after heavy rain as they clear up quickly and provide food while the bigger streams and rivers are brown/ silted up.
And yes the egg is fake, just a visual enticer. We use ping pong balls also but the lookalike eggs catch more.
@@jbwild nice, makes sense they push up, seen quite a few over the years but not in 1m widecreeks west coast and kahurangi
OK sweet. We are Central North Island, dense bush cover, mostly below 800m
Hey mate what on a average is a sentinel possum trap n a single doc 200
Hey, sorry do you mean how much do they cost to buy or how much do you get paid to service them? Or?
Poison will float down from the sky and cleanse the earth
And kill the dairy cows when they don’t let farmers on edge of forestry know. It’s sooooo amazing tbh 1080 is definitely the best thing to happen to New Zealand 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
1. 1080 works for ecological protection. Well proven. Significantly better & cheaper than trapping etc, where it is an acceptable technique.
2. Critics who highlight accidents or poor practice (like inaccurate application & accidental livestock kills) conveniently overlook
a. Insurance isn't paid out if lIvestock is carelessly allowed or deliberately put into freshly poisoned sites where bait is still toxic.
b. All neighbours, including farmers are clearly pre-notified of operation timing & precautions, & recorded, and it's difficult to miss the activities when it is distributed.
c. slipping the cows back into the bush for a bit of illegal free grazing isn't rocket science. It's an own goal.
d. Vastly more livestock are killed in mistake for deer by (k)hunters anywhere out of sight or late enough that might hide their illegal efforts. Even more so now night vision/thermal imaging has become widely available to these dangerous idiots.
Fortunately social media facilitates collecting similar minded groups for mental health solace think tanks and rec chem supplement sharing to aid distorting their observations towards the chosen agenda.
It's notable many hunters blindly accept clear falsehoods about this pest control method and its consequences, when they have never seen the problems they assert their reliable acquaintances apparently have irrefutable proof of.
This does not deny operator error and poor practice, and accidents, do happen rarely.
So does sabotage and illegal compromising of warning signs etc. by activists.
@@GhostSlayer666
Awesome bro
Thanks 🤗