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Green Pest Control With Owl Nest Boxes from Air Superiority!

Marc Lyman February 18, 2009 4 Comments

owl-nest-boxWhat’s an Owl Box? It’s Air Superiority’s answer to all your rat, mice and gopher problems. If you’ve seen Caddy Shack, then you know what lengths people will go to in order to rid themselves of a pesky gopher. We all have some horrifying stories of how uncle Jim or aunt Edna massacred a whole family of gophers using dynamite, a pick-axe and a water cannon. Luckily for all the family members, now there is a better way. It turns out that a pair of nesting owls eat up to 2000 rodents a year. That’s a lot of savings in bad gopher killing stories, and no family members will actually have blood on their hands. Air Superiority serves the western states, mainly California and Arizona. They provide and install owl boxes designed to entice owls to make your home or farm their staging area for rodent hunting. Tom Stephan runs Air Superiority and has practiced falconry since 1967. Tom knows birds. This is green pest control at its finest; no poisons, no scary gopher horror stories, although I’m sure the gophers find the owls pretty horrific. Air Superiority Owl Boxes range from about $350 to over $1000 installed, depending on model and options (which include fun options like video and motion detection).

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About Marc Lyman

Marc grew up under a brave single mom who "encouraged" home improvement on the family home. Early toddler gifts included a tool set, and even a cordless Bosch drill when cordless drills first came out. In grade school (give or take a few years), Marc's mom said, "We need to cut down some trees. . . . here's a chainsaw." A father figure also involved Marc in many home improvement projects, including a summer of home remodeling in Palo Alto, CA. Toss in some Obsessive Compulsive personality traits researching everything home improvement related. The end result: a genetically pre-disposed, socially sculpted home improvement machine! For his complete profile, please visit our About page. Really, it's worth it.

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  1. Dan says

    February 8, 2012 at 3:34 pm

    Great idea, but I wonder if the owls might attack cats and small dogs.

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    • Marc says

      February 8, 2012 at 7:15 pm

      Haven’t heard about Owls eating cats or dogs, but maybe the rest of the country grows owls bigger than we do here in San Diego.

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  2. Some Guy from Australia says

    February 25, 2009 at 2:44 am

    Great idea, but what sort of owl would fit into those holes?!
    I’m thinking you meant to post this picture:
    http://www.barnowlboxes.com/images/143_2.jpg

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    • Marc says

      February 25, 2009 at 11:00 pm

      Thanks for the comment Greg, and for catching my photo error. Air Superiority also provides boxes for species other than owls. . . . so it looks like I grabbed an image not really geared towards owls. Thanks for the correction!

      Reply

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