[obol] Rats at the rhody garden

[Jeff Gilligan]

I agree that owl boxes would be helpful there and elsewhere in Portland.  If
the boxes are put in the right place, Barn Owls should be easy to attract.
I have heard Barn Owls flying over my NE Portland neighborhood a few times.
I think all they need are boxes to start nesting in rat-infested parts of
town.  Barn owls are not adverse to nesting in areas with a lot of people.
Perhaps you should contact the vector control agency for the county, the
city parks department and Portland Audubon.  Someone in my neighborhood had
offered to put up a few Screech owl boxes at Laurelhurst Park.  The manager
of that park declined because she didn¹t want boxes put on tree trunks.


On 8/4/07 10:18 AM, "Stephanie H" <dr_hazeem at hotmail.com> wrote:

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>          I'm sure many of you know about the Rhododendron garden in Portland.
> I've gone there for years and one thing I've noticed recently is the large
> number of rats. They come out in the evening and it's like a plague (if you
> look in the bushes.). I think it's out of hand. We talked to a couple people
> patrons there and they said they should put down poison. I totally disagree,
> but I understand their concern with the rat infestation.
> 
>           I was thinking they should put up owl boxes for starters.
> 
> Any one got any other suggestions that will be safe and beneficial to the wild
> life there?
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