Tuesday, January 23, 2024
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- The Management
My friend that banded raptors learned a hard lesson. Every banded nest had been raided by raccoons that follow the human scent to the occupied trees. So, he would approach the nest from one one direction, do the banding. He also placed a wide section of easily removable flashing to stop climbing by the raccoons and removed the flashing after nesting season. He and his crew went to an different, unoccupied
ReplyDeletetree in an opposite direction. He actually took off his footwear and walked rings around the non-nest, or den tree and left as much human scent as he could. This was to lure the pillaging raccoons away from the nest tree. The strategies worked.