We are in the middle of a mini mouse plague here.
Only one in the house so far (caught in a trap) but we see them outside regularly and can hear scurrying in the roof at times.
Our friends in the area are experiencing the same.
What with the mouse plague out west and now a problem here, mouse/rat bait is at a premium. There are no supplies anywhere around. We have been forced to order it on the internet and you have to be quick there too. Limited supplies run out quickly.
We use the wax blocks. They are moisture resistant and therefore good for outside and are easy to throw into the roof cavity from the manhole.
We went through one bucket (55 blocks) in just over a week!
I couldn’t believe each day so many blocks had completely gone. Mice couldn’t carry them and rats would also have difficulty.
Maybe possums? But no dead ones around.
Maybe our resident bower bird, who loves blue things, was using them to decorate his bower. But no, nothing in there either apart from some of our blue clothes pegs and blue milk bottle tops.
Then the other day I spied the culprit.
One of our resident magpies had a block in his beak and the co driver caught one of them stealing a block off our front veranda.
They were hopefully using them to decorate their nests, not eating them.
I didn’t know they liked blue things. A quick check of Google came up with nothing apart from an article in a northern NSW paper about a magpie nest decorated with blue baling twine.
So now we are laying out the exterior baits after sunset and collecting them early morning.
Obviously this is a bit of a pain but with the bait shortage and resultant inflated price, not to mention possibly saving magpie lives, it’s something we have to do.
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