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Nice work! Maybe they'll find safer territory next year. The rodent pressure here definitely ebbs and flows, I had at least one season where I didn't see a single squirrel. In regards to fruit, I had the opposite problem, my cab sauv was still stuck at 21 brix last week, but it had reached 20...

Thanks David! The saga isn't totally over this year, I've already harvested the zin and merlot but my cab is still sitting up there, at 21 brix today and it's been cloudy and raining. I just saw small amount of clusters that have been getting chewed at the top so it looks like those little...

Wow, 18 squirrels this time of year? Sounds like you've got quite the burrow under your property, glad you have a solid solution.

Oh wow, that's really great information, seems like it's going to be unlikely I'll be able to get a horned owl to move in as there are no trees in my yard taller than about 12'. I was planning to put in a 4" x 4" x 16' post to host the owl box, but 30' is pushing it. We have a bunch of red...

For me that might be the best option then, since ive got the squirrels under control. There appears to be Great Horned Owls in my area but all the boxes I saw on Amazon seem to be for smaller screech owls, so im not sure which box to buy, it's gonna take some digging.

An outdoor cat is definitely the best possible rodent control option, although we do have Coyotes around here so not sure how long that'd last. I've also been considering an owl box, although not sure if an owl would see it once it's installed and just show up and live there or how that...

I was wondering the same thing. Did a quick google search and came up empty handed. Surely this scenario isn't isolated to my tiny vineyard.

Alright so I tried these lights out and I really couldn't tell if they worked as there is so much damage on the grapes already that it's too hard to tell if there's any new damage day to day, but based purely on how they look when their on at night I think these things are useless so I sent them...

Shoot, that may not be viable, I have an 8k sqft residential property with 6' vinyl fences on the sides and a 7' concrete wall across the back, so it was feasible for me to create a chokepoint in my yard, but that sounds just about impossible in your case. Seems like the trap will only work for...

yeah its bad enough when you drive past a dead one on the road, I can only imagine...

You gotta try this tube trap: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00K6JKVLS/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1&tag=forumyield-20 As long as you can block off most of their holes with a rock and funnel them all through one spot you'll catch one or more per day until the whole colony...

Wow, that's pretty cool if it actually works, that'll be my next purchase assuming the strobe lights fail. I have considered harvesting early, but 2 things would happen: 1. I'd have yet another year where I failed to take the grapes all the way to term due to some natural event (last year it...

Thanks, fingers crossed this does the trick!

Actually trapped one last year, but they're pretty obvious: 1. they leave dog-sized poop behind 2. they will devour way more fruit than I've seen disappearing at night 3. I had a trail cam pointed at the vine last night from like 2 ft away and nothing tripped it, so it's likely it's just the...

Interesting, I'll give that a shot, they seem to prefer the grapes off the vine as opposed to the grapes I bait the trap with, so it would be nice to have something more appetizing to them.

Fortunately I don't have much snake activity in my yard, I've only had 2 snakes back there in the 11 years I've lived here and I killed them quickly because I have small children. That said, the first was a coachwhip racer and the second was a gopher snake, so in all honestly they aren't...

The challenge with these is that there's always a bunch of negative reviews about it not working, so I was hoping for some tried and true advice from the forum members here, as amazon's reviews are just unreliable.

yeah saw that one, only problem is it's indoor and requires an outlet.

Thanks for the suggestion, I found these which seem to have good reviews and it does mention rats. Although it says to remove any tempting food sources... which is exactly what I cannot do...

I have seen the ground squirrels climb over the fence from my neighbors house, but for the most part they've never really learned to stop coming through the one burrow hole I leave open, which has been great for me. I suppose they like the minimum effort approach when seeking food in my yard...