To hold your tunnel in place makeВ the piece of wire into a U shape and place it over your tunnel and into the ground.

Find a good place in your backyard to put your tunnel.

Place the tray in the middle of the tunnel and put sheets of paper at both ends.

Use peanut butter for rats and mice and raw meat for mustelids like stoats.

Put some bait on a leaf and place it in the middle of the sponge.

Soak a sponge in red food colouring and place it on the plastic tray.

Darken the tunnel by wrapping it in polythene.

Cut off both ends of the large milk bottles.

Is it who you thought you would find? Collect the items youвЂ™ll need Look at your results and try to work out who is visiting your garden. You can disguise your tunnel in the roots of a tree or even cover it with sticks. Maybe even try a few different spots on different nights, or try using different food to see what is popular.В Experiment by putting a few tunnels around your backyard. Put your tracking tunnel out in the garden overnight. Use your imagination to build something spectacular! It can be as easy or as fancy as you like. Now youвЂ™ve found some spots, build a tracking tunnel.

Look for different types of places in your garden that you could use. Think about what might be there and what sort of places they might live, use for food or walk around in. The footprints show what animals are there and where the animalsВ will feed.Д®xplore your garden work out some different spots to put your tracking tunnel.Pests like tunnels so they scamper in to get the bait and then leave their footprints on the paper as they pass through.In the bush, DOC rangers use tracking tunnels to record where small animals pass through.

A tracking tunnel is easy to make and records what is living in your backyard.Tracking tunnel: Public Domain About tracking tunnels

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