Voles (#@*!!%^)

[Wrennie]

I have a boatload of voles this year. Anyone have suggestions on how to deter the little $#@*&^+? The hawks are not doing a good job, or owls, snakes etc. One vole was peeking out from under a wood pile pallet, I thought it was a mink it was so freaking big!

[w8in4dave]

No clue

[mogarden]

Wrennie, voles are normally underground as much as possible. You might have a weasel there in addition to your voles. (Weasels love woodpiles for some reason, but they eat mice and voles.) No ideas tho other than poison. I have had them to eat all the below-ground portions of an apple tree so that the first thing I know about the problem is a sapling leaning over. I went to straighten it up and it has no roots! Maddening to say the least.

[Wrennie]

I have had mink here. Never saw a weasel. Watched an iris shake like a tornado was hitting, then tiiiiiimbeeeerrrrr. I look and theres a vole looking at me. Then zip.............. off he ran. The big guy was a vole too. The wood pallet has no more wood just an open pallet. This way mild winter has left them fat, huge hungry for my garden and way plentiful.

[Doug]

Can't you set traps in yer yard

[Christy]

Wrennie you need to have a good talking to your cats

I dont know what gets rid of them either. I got em here too. I seen a garter snake in the yard. hope he gets hungry

[Wrennie]

My cats are strictly indoors, too close to the road. I watched one the other day. Kept lookin to be sure he wasnt a rat he was so big. The traps cant tell if its a mole, vole, chipmunk, mink, etc so I dont want to use them.

[coppice]

If you have hose. Open up and flood tunnels in mounds. Spear, trod upon homeless moles after.

Sow milky-spoor to reduce forage for moles.