The Cape Bird Club

Cloeteskraal visit – September 2008

Quartis Laubscher from Cloeteskraal uses no poisons on his farm.

photograph by Heather Howell

Looking into the owl box from the back of a bakkie.

He controls gerbils and insects with owls and bats - thus saving R80,000-00 per annum. Here the Junior CBC inspect the owl boxes in his fields. 
Most boxes contained chicks, and a store of dead gerbils that had been provisioned by the parents.

Heather Howell.