Mole Question

[ptd]

Had an interesting experience today and wanted to ask a question.
I always have a few mole hills and this morning found a small mole in the garden, about 15cm long, in the veg patch.
I decided to re-locate him (or her) and so with the kids we picked him up and shifted him to the edge of a small copse beside a field about 4-500m from our garden.
Then, about 2.5h later I was sitting in the house and saw the mole come in from the field behind our house and head across the lawn to the veg patch where he spent some time at the surface again.
Is this normal for moles - do they have homing behaviour?
Should I move him several miles away, he makes an awful mess and i usual use one of those sound repellers?
Cheers
ptd

[thunder]

Moles do have a homing instinct. They are also very territorial, so if you did move this one far enough away to confuse him, his place would probably be taken by another quite quickly.

henrya

[artdemole]

Mole was probably after your earthworms in the vegetable plot as ground would be softer.Mole must have used it before.So it would be in mole's territory. If you relocate mole he might be put in danger.

[Lance Morgan]

They are very territorial and this could be a young one trying to find territory of its own.