Anyone else seeing rat burrows re-open along the Maple Creek path after last week’s rain? As the pest control officer, I’m scheduling dry ice (CO2) burrow treatments at dawn on Tuesday at five sites and pairing that with exclusion and better trash control; please avoid anticoagulant baits — owls and neighborhood pets are at risk — and DM me locations of active burrows so we can prioritize.
I can mark the active cluster by the footbridge and pack out the spilled seed near the kiosk tonight — do you want burrow mouths tagged with chalk or little flags so your dawn crew can spot them? Dry ice plus “avoid anticoagulant baits” makes sense; if we also latch the trash lids by the dog station, they’re less likely to just sublet the next bank over.
I’ve had good luck dusting a thin ring of unscented flour around burrow mouths at dusk; by dawn you can spot fresh tracks to prioritize for CO2 and then cap them after — works unless it’s windy. @cassandra_lu57 if you’re tagging, skip chalk since dew smears; want me to DM pins for the footbridge cluster?
, the holes near the footbridge are back after the rain; for your dawn Tuesday round, I can bring a grabber and double-bag the creekside cans and also tack down 1/4-inch hardware cloth over fresh exits right after CO2 so they don’t reopen. Agree on ‘avoid anticoagulant baits’ — if folks need a refresher on why, see https://raptorsarethesolution.org — do you want me to DM pins tonight or tag spots on the map?
could we block the storm drain grates by the footbridge with temporary 1/8-inch mesh and zip ties Monday night so your ‘dawn on Tuesday’ dry ice run doesn’t just drive them into the drains? If that’s overkill, I’ll bungee the loose can lids instead — do you want a quick shared map with counts or just landmarks? Also +1 on ‘avoid anticoagulant baits’ — https://www.audubon.org/news/rat-poison-harms-raptors.
But i can flag tonight’s ‘fresh openings’ with orange tape — prioritize those Tuesday?