Wednesday , week 1 , term 4 2017
Anne and Ethan Zealandia rangers came in to room 14 to teach us about tracking tunnels. Tracking tunnels are useful to tell if we have pests in Brooklyn School. Tracking tunnels are triangles made out of recycled real estate signs. They have an ink mat with peanut butter inside. If an animal wanders through and eats the peanut butter then you can see the footprints. We are using the tracking tunnels to figure out if there are any pests in Brooklyn School, where there are pests and what kind of pests they are. We made 5 tunnels and put them in different places around the school. In the orchard, the tree area, by the fence, under room 15 and 16 and under room 18 steps.
Tuesday, week 2, term 4 2017
Anne and Ethan came and visited us to see how our tracking tunnels were going. One of them was missing, three of them had tracks and the one in the orchard didn't. The one under room 18 had weta footprints. They were tiny little footprints like dots in a row. The one near the fence had big smudgy footprints and Anne suspects that it was a hedgehog. The one by the trees had weta footprints and another set of footprints that may be a mouse. We uploaded the photos to inaturalist app. This means that experts can look at our footprints and figure out what they are for us.
Now we know what pests we have we can start trapping them by setting up pest traps. Anne and Ethan came and gave us some pest traps and showed us how to set the pest traps safely.
Room 14 have been writing to Mrs Rhodes to convince her that we should set up a couple of pest traps. We want to do this because we dont want any other endemic birds, birds only found in new zealand, going extinct.
If you see any of our tracking tunnels or pest traps please don`t touch or open them.
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