The directors have asked Tim to engage a “mole man” to deal with the damage in the common areas which has become increasingly apparent in recent weeks.
We understand that moles prefer to live in deciduous woodland, farmland or grassland, where there is an abundance of food. They are fiercely territorial and a resident mole will never allow another to share its territory. So in other words there are likely to be only a very small number of moles that are producing the large number of molehills we are seeing.
The contractor who has been recommended to us has said that he has never known as big a problem generally with moles as he has seen this year, so he is very busy. He deals with them humanely by trapping them, using no chemicals.
Areas of molehills have appeared at the side of the green open space, up the wooded side of Marjoram Avenue and Yarrow Close and there are also some in Betony Close. No doubt there are others around which he’ll search for and we think it’s most likely that there are also issues in residents’ private gardens, so if that’s the case you might wish to contact our contractor (although it could be better to wait and see how successful he is!). Alternatively, you may see him working about the estate and could speak to him. His name is Paul Stanford of Ronin Mole & Pest Control and he is a member of the Association of Professional Molecatchers and the British Traditional Molecatchers Register.
