What's different around Padstow
The creek corridor
Canterbury-Bankstown Council describes the Salt Pan Creek corridor as a link from Bankstown to the Georges River, with mangroves, wetlands and walking trails. Padstow and Padstow Heights are two of the suburbs around it, so bush, water and backyards sit close together.
A wasp nest on your land
The council says a nest on private property is the responsibility of the owner, occupier or tenant, and it doesn't recommend tackling it yourself. Nests on council land work differently: report them, and the council arranges removal.
Chook feed, rats and foxes
Uncontained chicken feed may attract rats, the council says, and the rats then bring foxes into the yard. If you keep chooks, a sealed bin breaks that chain.
What gets inside Padstow houses?
The council lists brush-tailed possums, snakes, spiders and some birds among the animals known to get indoors. In NSW it's illegal to trap, relocate, or catch and release a possum without a licence, so that job comes down to proofing the roof, with lawful catch and release where it's needed.
Rats are a separate problem. Black rats climb well and nest in roofs and wall cavities, so scratching overhead at night could be either animal. Before anyone treats anything, ask the technician to show you what they found and where it's getting in.
What's yours, and what's a pest business's job?
You can
- Keep bin lids closed and pick up pet food once your pet has finished.
- Store chicken feed in a sealed container.
- Tip out water from pot plant bases and buckets at least weekly.
- Photograph a nest from a safe distance, and keep people and pets well back.
Leave to a pest business
- Treating a wasp nest on your property.
- Tracing how rats reach the roof or walls.
- Possum proofing, and lawful catch and release on your property.
- Inspecting for termites before a sale or a renovation.
Where we'd start with pests in Padstow
Deal with food first: bins, pet bowls and chook feed. If the noise overhead carries on after that, or a nest is close to a door, tell us what you've seen and your postcode, and take it from there.
Want someone to look at it?
Tell us what you've seen and your postcode, and a local pest business that handles exactly that calls you to talk it through.
