Mole catching bird

[Probuk 93]

Hello Chap's..just a question for you lad's .

 

Iv been vermin controling for about 30 year's now. I started with dog's and an air rifle when i was quite young..and foolish. I even got into falconary at the age of about 24 till i was about 28 but a split in a relationship ended that short and i never got back into it.

 

On a few occasions i have thought of getting back into it but i know the commitment you lads have to put into these bird's

 

Anyway enough of all that...How many of you have bird's that go moleing.?? Yep "moleing".!!

 

This is the million doller question.

 

A strange question but i have a good reason for asking....as i trap moles using traps but i thought if i can get a bird that catchs moles my job could be made a whole lot easyer...as in no probing or digging and laying trap's

 

I get alot of shooting permission through moleing.

 

Oh I forgot to mension the lad called Phil thats going around my permissions with a hunting bird claiming it hunts up moles...and can clean up a field in just a few visits

 

I dont supose he a member on here maybe.?? I want to see this mole hunting bird Dont get me wrong here im well awere that if a bird see's a mole on top of the ground that its likley to kill it but im sure they dont go cleaning up fields in a few days :laugh:

 

But got to give it to him he gave me and a few land owners the tickels over the last few days :laugh: :laugh:

 

Marty

[paulus 26]

i bet he`s on countryfile this sunday :laugh: catch this one

[scrutchy 5]

:laugh: what bird did he have a molecher :laugh:

[jasper65 6]

Not for the faint hearted catching moles. certainly wouldn't advice flying anything smaller than a Goldie or large female Redtail at them. moles are more than capable of dragging hawks down their hole's and devouring them .

 

Flying Harrishawks at them? my money is on the mole everytime ....

[Malt 379]

Don't some types of owl hunt moles?

[paulus 26]

Don't some types of owl hunt moles?

only the ones with oxygen tanks on can follow them underground moles can survive in an inviorement containing only 6% oxygen as they have double the carnt remeber if its red or white blood cells of other mamals/ a tawny or barn owl is more than capable of taking a mole worming on top

[CityHunter.uK 12]

Would love to know how he entered his birds on them I tried feeding mine some that I trapped and they didnt seem to recognise them as food and so wouldnt touch them

 

Personally I think your looking at a miner bird to get at the moles thats where they get their name from isnt it?

[Malt 379]

Don't some types of owl hunt moles?

only the ones with oxygen tanks on can follow them underground moles can survive in an inviorement containing only 6% oxygen as they have double the carnt remeber if its red or white blood cells of other mamals/ a tawny or barn owl is more than capable of taking a mole worming on top

 

 

Aye, I'm sure I saw something about barn owls taking them as they pushed up the molehills somewhere at one point.

[Lab 10,979]

Heres my pet robin getting ready to catch a few moles................just before he digs the totties in too...........

[Probuk 93]

Hahahaha...pesonally i think hes some kind of nutter thats just got out of the loonybin somewhere...

 

I think he may have a harris from how the bird was discribed..but come on..its a compleat insult to a good bird to have to sit on the fist of such an idiot

 

Anyway lads thanks for the laugh's...Il get back to my own section of the forum.

 

Good luck and happy hunting.

 

Marty

[leegreen 2,189]

 

 

Flying Harrishawks at them? my money is on the mole everytime ....

 

I'd put my money on the Crow

[jasper65 6]

I'd put my money on the Crow

 

think you're right there Lee.

 

one of them Red crows squarking down the top of a mole hill is enough to make him surrender