By Ian Burns
MY brother-in-law Tom is 81. He lives in a village at Dingley with his wife Marilyn. They also own a unit at Rhyll in the complex where my wife and I live. Tom loves to “go for a shot”. So, whenever he and Marilyn come to the Island, I arrange permission for that with one of the property owners I know.
We are after rabbits. The Island is now officially fox-free, so it’s mostly feral cats that are a predator problem for our small mammals and birds.
Over the past couple of years thriving colonies of eastern banded bandicoots have been established on the Island. Some of these are on the properties I shoot on; you need to be particularly careful before shooting that the “rabbit” you are looking at is not a striped one with a pointy nose!
MY brother-in-law Tom is 81. He lives in a village at Dingley with his wife Marilyn. They also own a unit at Rhyll in the complex where my wife and I live. Tom loves to “go for a shot”. So, whenever he and Marilyn come to the Island, I arrange permission for that with one of the property owners I know.
We are after rabbits. The Island is now officially fox-free, so it’s mostly feral cats that are a predator problem for our small mammals and birds.
Over the past couple of years thriving colonies of eastern banded bandicoots have been established on the Island. Some of these are on the properties I shoot on; you need to be particularly careful before shooting that the “rabbit” you are looking at is not a striped one with a pointy nose!