GATES

Stephen,

Here is the start at the other end of the Dog Fence near Jandowae QLD :)








Cheers Kev

Hi Kev

Thanks for that. If you are after a good read about the Dog Fence, the book by James Woodford...."The Dog Fence" is worth reading.


Cheers


Stephen

Hi N

It was distressing to find this young Wedge Tail Eagle in one of the Traps.


Cheers


Stephen

Hi Stephen,
You ask 'what else gets caught?' I've seen Echidna's, a small snake (I think it was dropped by a eagle on to the wire) and a small Roo in the electric part of the fence, the Kangaroo had only it's legs left it must have shorted the fence out enough for predators to get to it.
It's probably a small price to pay if it protects our farmers lively hood.
Cheers
Graham

I've got ask....how do you get an eagle out of a trap....apart from the obvious, carefully.....

Hi eighty matey

Yes it was not easy. When i was driving towards the eagle, I just thought that it was sitting on a log and would fly off when we got closer.

The closer we got, it just sat there and then at the last minute tried to fly off, only getting about 18 inches off the ground and then we saw it.....a chain that was attached to the trap was stopping it from taking off.

The poor bird must have been in pain and a lot of fear, so we had to access the situation quickly. I retrieved a log handled shovel and small tarp from the car.

Graeme with us placed the shovel over its body to pin it down and I then placed the tarp over its whole body, so it could not see us and hopefully calm the bird down.

It then took me and another man to stand on each end of the trap to open it enough to free the trapped leg. We then removed the tarp and the bird just played dead, but its eyes watching our every move.

At least now the bird was free and we know that it tried to fly off when we approached it, so it now hard a far better chance of survival than being caught in the trap and left for a very long time to die a very slow death.

Cheers


Stephen

Not your average day on the tracks.

The poor eagle would have thought his number was up when you came at him with tarps and shovels, stuck in a trap.

Good on you. Job well done,

Steve.