https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/78oos8st9csesuraw3uq3/Unexpected-stoat-behaviour.AVI?rlkey=pstvlav62t5ps1wzzatckhk0r&st=bmi5vwls&dl=0
This is a link to a file in my Dropbox. It’s a video you may have to download to play. (Even I had to). Maybe because it’s .AVI or ‘aged’. Never seen this before. As far as I know there was just Brody in the bait station. Maybe there was a dead/almost dead mouse in it?
Hmmm, strange, but yeah it’s probably just reacting to rodent smell from rodents interacting with the bait station to get the bait.
Hi I can’t view your video but if you are talking about stoats investigating bait stations, yes it does happen
back in 2018/19 when I was developing the excluder baffles now used in philproof bait station, I used prefeeds in bait stations for months at a time testing and refining designs. rats thought it was Christmas. I did have a couple of stoats investigate the bait station presumably because of all the rat activity and scent trail they leave behind. If rats are comfortable enough they consume the prefeed/bait inside the bait station and shit all over the inside which is worth a passing stoat investigating. Had the same thing with several Feral Cats investigating the bait stations, they even ate some of the prefeed that a rat had dropped on the ground
cheers