I see that Ken Cooke has noted mole activity in his report today. Over
the past week my wife and I have spotted mole activity everywhere
we've been on a massive scale - apart (touch wood) from our garden.
Is this in response to the frosts we've been experiencing?

David Mitchell. 2m bsl. Minor hill top. Tunnelshire.

On 6 Jan, 19:18, wrote:
I see that Ken Cooke has noted mole activity in his report today. Over
the past week my wife and I have spotted mole activity everywhere
we've been on a massive scale - apart (touch wood) from our garden.
Is this in response to the frosts we've been experiencing?

David Mitchell. 2m bsl. Minor hill top. Tunnelshire.

Same here. B***dy things are making a huge mess of my met enclosure.
The yhave a 5 acre field to play in and they have to dig up my
enclosure!

OT sure, but if anyone knows a foolproof (preferably fairly humane)
way of discouraging the blighters let me know please ... I bought a
solar-powered mole scarer a couple of years back, that seemed to do
the trick for a while, but now it/they dig holes right next to it.
Grrr!!

--
Stephen Burt
Stratfield Mortimer, Berkshire

wrote:

On 6 Jan, 19:18, wrote:
I see that Ken Cooke has noted mole activity in his report today. Over
the past week my wife and I have spotted mole activity everywhere
we've been on a massive scale - apart (touch wood) from our garden.
Is this in response to the frosts we've been experiencing?

David Mitchell. 2m bsl. Minor hill top. Tunnelshire.

Same here. B***dy things are making a huge mess of my met enclosure.
The yhave a 5 acre field to play in and they have to dig up my
enclosure!

OT sure, but if anyone knows a foolproof (preferably fairly humane)
way of discouraging the blighters let me know please ... I bought a
solar-powered mole scarer a couple of years back, that seemed to do
the trick for a while, but now it/they dig holes right next to it.
Grrr!!


My Dad used to get lots of badgers digging up his garden. He pinned a wire
mesh down over the lawn. Within a few months the mesh was invisible and it
is impenetrable by the badgers.


--
Brian Wakem

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wrote:

On 6 Jan, 19:18, wrote:
I see that Ken Cooke has noted mole activity in his report today. Over
the past week my wife and I have spotted mole activity everywhere
we've been on a massive scale - apart (touch wood) from our garden.
Is this in response to the frosts we've been experiencing?

David Mitchell. 2m bsl. Minor hill top. Tunnelshire.

Same here. B***dy things are making a huge mess of my met enclosure.
The yhave a 5 acre field to play in and they have to dig up my
enclosure!

OT sure, but if anyone knows a foolproof (preferably fairly humane)
way of discouraging the blighters let me know please ... I bought a
solar-powered mole scarer a couple of years back, that seemed to do
the trick for a while, but now it/they dig holes right next to it.
Grrr!!


My Dad used to get lots of badgers digging up his garden. He pinned a
wire
mesh down over the lawn. Within a few months the mesh was invisible and
it
is impenetrable by the badgers.

What about the lawn mower?
--
Col

Bolton, Lancashire
160m asl

When we were on holiday near Abergavenny in mid-December we noticed a
gret deal of mole activity. That was before the frosty weather set in.

Norman
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Norman Lynagh
Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire
85m a.s.l.
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Norman Lynagh
Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire


.... are you still there Norman?

Martin.



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Martin Rowley
West Moors, East Dorset (UK): 17m (56ft) amsl
Lat: 50.82N Long: 01.88W
NGR: SU 082 023

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Norman Lynagh
Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire


... are you still there Norman?

Martin.


Not quite! Currently "camping" in a flat we own in High Wycombe while
some problems are sorted out in the chain. All our goods and chattels
have been in store since 23rd Dec. With a lot of luck and a following
wind we might, just might, get to completion on Friday this week but
it's not a done deal yet though we are hoping to exchange contracts
tomorrow. Fingers and all sorts of other appendages are firmly crossed!
It has been a Christmas and New Year with a difference.

Norman
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Norman Lynagh
Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire
85m a.s.l.
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Col wrote:


"Brian Wakem" wrote in message
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wrote:

On 6 Jan, 19:18, wrote:
I see that Ken Cooke has noted mole activity in his report today. Over
the past week my wife and I have spotted mole activity everywhere
we've been on a massive scale - apart (touch wood) from our garden.
Is this in response to the frosts we've been experiencing?

David Mitchell. 2m bsl. Minor hill top. Tunnelshire.

Same here. B***dy things are making a huge mess of my met enclosure.
The yhave a 5 acre field to play in and they have to dig up my
enclosure!

OT sure, but if anyone knows a foolproof (preferably fairly humane)
way of discouraging the blighters let me know please ... I bought a
solar-powered mole scarer a couple of years back, that seemed to do
the trick for a while, but now it/they dig holes right next to it.
Grrr!!


My Dad used to get lots of badgers digging up his garden. He pinned a
wire
mesh down over the lawn. Within a few months the mesh was invisible and
it
is impenetrable by the badgers.

What about the lawn mower?


Not an issue. The soil level is now above the mesh. You have to stake it
right down, then it disappears within months.



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Brian Wakem

wrote in message
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On 6 Jan, 19:18, wrote:
I see that Ken Cooke has noted mole activity in his report today. Over
the past week my wife and I have spotted mole activity everywhere
we've been on a massive scale - apart (touch wood) from our garden.
Is this in response to the frosts we've been experiencing?

David Mitchell. 2m bsl. Minor hill top. Tunnelshire.

Same here. B***dy things are making a huge mess of my met enclosure.
The yhave a 5 acre field to play in and they have to dig up my
enclosure!

OT sure, but if anyone knows a foolproof (preferably fairly humane)
way of discouraging the blighters let me know please ... I bought a
solar-powered mole scarer a couple of years back, that seemed to do
the trick for a while, but now it/they dig holes right next to it.
Grrr!!


I have a battery powered tube thing that emits a noise every minute or so,
it reckons it simulates a distress call.
Got it at a garden centre. Works a treat, as I have moles in the paddock but
not in the garden.
I used to trap them but that was rather upsetting disposing of the
carcasses.

Will
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On Tue, 6 Jan 2009 11:18:58 -0800 (PST),
wrote:

I see that Ken Cooke has noted mole activity in his report today. Over
the past week my wife and I have spotted mole activity everywhere
we've been on a massive scale - apart (touch wood) from our garden.
Is this in response to the frosts we've been experiencing?
I must admit that a colleague made his winter bet ( I forget the
exact terms) last year on the basis of mole activity. I was too
embarrassed to mention his observations to be honest. He mentioned
moles again today but it was during a tedious meeting and i could not
engage on a new bet just at that point as Mr Keen To Impress sitting
in front of me said conversations about moles were inappropriate

R