Old, I was on the Havahart site when I first got the trap and read about the cantaloupe. I did try that as bait before the corn on the cob. Most of the cantaloupe had disappeared from the trap but the trap was unsprung. By coincidence, I baited with cantaloupe again tonight. We'll see what tomorrow brings.
On a related topic, I'm a small fruit backyard grower. I had to work the last three days and was eagerly waiting to get out to my seaberry plants earlier today. On Monday, my young plants (which are just now starting to fruit) had berries that were just starting to color up. I was thinking I would net them today. Well, this afternoon, there was not a single berry to be found. The %&^##@$ robins had taken every single berry. Robins are the worst. I hate them a hundred times more than groundhogs. As a backyard grower of small fruit, I don't have a lot of space to devote to any one type or variety, so when the robbing's show up, they get the whole crop of everything that's starting to ripen. Fighting the robins is a constant battle. Moving plants into the hoop house or covering with net is a constant drain on time and resources. And no matter what I do, the robins win. Later in the evening, I kicked at a baby robin that had fallen out of a tree. I missed it, which is a good thing as I would have felt guilty about killing it. But the gloves are going to come off one of these days. Robins do millions of dollars of damage to small fruits. That's blueberries, raspberries, cherries, etc. They devastate the harvest of backyard growers like me. If rats had wings, they wouldn't be as bad as robins. I dream of omelets made from blue eggs...
