Getting Rid of Gophers

Wow, you two must live in remote areas. I haven't seen a real live owl for over 40 years in our area! Northern Ohio! Can hardly remember what they look like :-((

Rural, but not what I would call "remote"...we're

Interesting you should mention that....I remember seeing the darn things sitting on the fence in front of a college campus in San Jose, CA....That place must have a million people or so. But I did live in a remote area in the Santa Cruz mountains about 40 miles from SJ,CA (now a Central Florida resident)....and you could hear the owls at night. Once in awhile we would get a mole or gopher but nature took it's course and the owls had dinner!.....take care, Ross

Ross Mac wrote: ...

Don't know what their favorite target will be there, but if there are rabbits, mice, skunks, and other nocturnal above ground critters, they're far more likely to take them than moles or gophers. Not that they won't if given the opportunity, but the stay above ground so little, the flying-hunting owls don't wait around specifically for them...

What is most effective for them are the rattlesnakes, at least here. I don't much care to have them in the yard around the house, either, although I don't discourage them around the barn, etc., where rodents are more of an perpetual issue. And, of course, they're not active during the winter when the gophers are making hay, so to speak... :(