Mountain out of a molehill
We are staying at our favourite site Sandringham in the woods of Norfolk. Today a chap started laying lethal Mole traps in the Mole runway at the rear of our caravan. It started to make me question why? What harm could a few Moles do. So I went and asked the site warden's and was suprised that the answer was as a company the CAMC have to. This seemed to me totally unnecessary, I know Moles runways (name used for their tunnels ) can be destructive if in the middle of a well manicured lawn but not in the middle of a Norfolk forest. There are numerous Rabbit holes on site so a few Molehills should not be a problem. Moles do not carry any disease, the hill left by the Mole surfacing can be easily flattened.
Let's not destroy our wildlife just because sometimes it is an inconvenience.
Graham Saville
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Excellent post
as a species Humans destroy everything that stops them from having life easy & cost effective. How a tiny little subterranean burrower can be destroyed in its own environment I can't understand. It sits very badly with the 'great outdoors' attitude. Great outdoors?, preferably without any creatures that live in the great outdoors-sickening
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I too agree that it is rather ironic to promote "the great outdoors" yet "as a company the CAMC have to lay these traps" (quoted from OP)? I wonder why, in a setting such as Sandringham. It's too easy to destroy wildlife, the moles were there before the site was.
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QED.
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I did ask why but the main repeated response was that as a company they have to, they also said that "when they arrived earlier in the year there was a lot of Molehills to clear up".
Just for information Sandringham is open all year so maybe different warden's different values.
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Whenever I see mole traps I always give them a good kick.
I think as the club are pushing the countryside and wildlife I shall take it on myself to write and complain about this barbaric practice.
This is another thread that should elicit a reply from a staff champions, you know the ones, the big fanfare and welcome.....then nothing!
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http://www.hortweek.com/pest-disease-factsheet-moles/ornamentals/article/1426987
Fact sheet doesn't identify any disease related issues
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I've had Moles burrowing in my garden & throwing up hills. I used most of the hills as potting compost-excellent stuff it is. I then raked it clear. Mother Nature sorted the rest. In a week the Mole/s moved on, they lived & I got some excellent flowers. Humans & Nature working in harmony. That's how to treat the wildlife that was here before we ever were
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Rat traps at Baltic Wharf👍
Mole traps at Sandringham, on face value👎
Although as ET said we may not have the full picture. They do I understand eat there own body weight in earthworms every day. Perhaps they are running out of control and the authorities are not content to wait for a shortage of food supply to control population. Perhaps if the club still look at these threads, which I am beginning to doubt, they could comment.
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Again its the arm wringing, sentimental, clap trap from those who only understand wildlife from the false, engineered TV programmes that want to control the countryside. Leave it to the exerts and the long lived country folk and a proper balance will be achieved.
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Why do you persist in this "us versus them", "town versus country" twaddle, Fisherman? Everyone is entitled to ther view, surely? How would you " country folk" survive without the support/investment/subsidy of "town/city folk"?
The style of your comments on subjects like this are narrow minded and not appropriate on this forum, I'd suggest.
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You are very shortsighted in your outlook Fish. Many of us live in the real Countryside, no Pub, no Shops, no Buses. Just acres of the wild landscape with no need to take life & control anything that doesn't fit in our 21st century over engineered life. You & your fellows are an anachronism from a bygone time. Those that live with Nature are the true decent Humans, taking life for survival not pleasure.2 -
Jasper Carrot -shotgun and swivel chair springs to mind. ( only for the entertainment value)
Not into killing something for fun or that isn't doing me any harm!
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" Blackhorse Farm"??
??Stick to the roads & walkways ,,or a sprained ankle could result !!
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Graham, as a former professional pest controller, I accept most of your post and agree with it, but, let's not go OTT. I do hope you are not suggesting these traps are lethal to anything else other than the moles. The problem with moles is that they can remove large amounts of soil from just below the surface (feed runs) and deeper ( mobility runs) and can make the surrounding area start to sink. Perhaps it's this fact that makes the club take action? It's not always obvious as to why action is taken but there will be a reason. I doubt that the club takes action against wildlife without extremely valid and pressing reasons.
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