Time for the owls to go. The population has crashed with only one breeding pair remaining, and given it's a mother-son, it's a bad genetic bottleneck. with all the feral cats, foxes, hawks, dogs and other predators, they aren't going to survive in this area. I enjoyed seeing them while they were here and am sorry to see them go. But it's not worth the effort, and their population survives elsewhere.

The City of Mountain View has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars over the past several years for wildlife biologists, mitigation actions, etc to save a few owls THAT ARE NOT ENDANGERED. It is absurd. The past several City Councils have been puppets of Ms Kleinhaus, who is a fanatic. Goodbye owls. Don't blame the people or begin another witch hunt for cats; the City spent over $100,000 in City staff time and equipment such as infrared cameras posted along creeks in the City to determine cats were not the problem.

Time for Mountain View to focus on finding solutions to real problems.

Thank You, Shani Kleinhaus for all your efforts to save the owls. Obviously from the comments above,Dave and oldtime there is a selfish, uncaring feeling that will allow continued extinctions and environmental degradation to occur- Shame on you and all of us for letting this happen.

We have met the enemy and he is us- Pogo

@oldtime-
Sounds exactly like Lenny- it's what he screamed at me- So much for him being an environmentalist. How many more rats and mice will there be!

If it's not him - Let's hear from him or his organization Web Link
which takes our tax dollars for what?

The small animals they feed on are not in place anymore in the SFBA. Just trap and release them in Colorado to feed on the prairie dog ( rodent ) population in Colorado. that would be the humane thing to do at this point. There is a thriving burrowing owl population there.

Burrowing owls are a common bird, with a huge range in the Americas, and the Bay Area is on the very edge of their habitat range. Check out the map here, for example: Web Link

I really don't see why we treat them differently than pigeons or crows.

Phil the owl guy at Shoreline has no ckue whst hes doing. Over paid to identify native weeds?!?!? Give me a break...hes a waste if city money. Time for the owls and phil to fly away !!!!!

Rodenticide is also destroying populations of owl and other birds of prey. Use snap traps, please!

Save these owls!! Giving up their breeding grounds for more useless, empty office buildings would create a bleak, dead landscape of despair. We need those owls. They control rodents and they are cherished creatures here in Mountain View. Didn't anyone read The Lorax? Quit killing off nature around here.

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