Grim bandicoot toll

Ventnor resident Helen Grimaux made this grim discovery of a dead bandicoot on Ventnor Beach Road last week.

She moved the carcass of the endangered creature to the side of the road and called Parks Victoria, who wanted to carry out an autopsy, finding a second dead bandicoot in the same area a few days later.

“There have been more and more sightings of bandicoots apparently, around Pyramid Rock and further,” Helen said.

“I have seen at least two darting around the Ventnor Beach Road common. Like wallabies they come out right on dusk, and they have no road sense.

“The roadkill is constant for birds and wallabies on the stretch to the dog beach, as it has become, even with the limit at 60km/hr now.”

At the same time Martin Heine posted a photo of a bird on social media, which he said had inadvertently eaten rat poison, which had been consumed by its prey.

“Try not use the stuff, there are new things available like mint-based deterrents or live trap-and-dispose,” Martin wrote.