Latest Wildlife Update — May 27, 2008
Since the last update we have been extremely busy. May always seems to be the month where all the animals decide to enter houses at the exact same time. Bat season is underway and I was pleased to see two healthy colonies of little brown bats this past month. We have also excluded 4 large colonies of big brown bats this month also. Calls for raccoons have slowed down a bit. The most recent raccoon jobs we've found pups that were already 4-5lbs in weight. Calls for squirrels have been coming in steadily this past month. Juvenile gray squirrels are now traveling with the adults. We're seeing large numbers of juvenile gray squirrels this year. 5-6 juveniles per attic have been common. And last but not least, complaints for mice have dropped off with the arrival of the warm weather. Which is just fine with me because I'm tired of crawling under decks with the spiders and snakes while mouse proofing houses. Check out the pictures from some of these projects below.
Ma. Raccoon Removal
This big female raccoon was guarding a litter of pups in an attic. We removed her by hand shortly after she posed for this picture and then gently removed the 4 juveniles.
Bat Removal from Attic
This house in Topsfield Ma. had bats under some roof flashing and roosting behind the shutters. There was about 2 dozen bats in this colony.
Mice Removal
The family that live in this house had been putting up with mice for 10 years. Every year they would trap and poison dozens of mice. After crawling on my stomach for 40 feet under their porch I finally located the 1 single hole that had let hundreds of mice into their home for years. The hole was sealed, the mice were removed and this family's mice problems are over.
Removing Squirrels
I removed this juvenile gray squirrel from a basement in Westwood Ma. I then had a long talk with him about entering people's houses.
Squirrels in Attic
We removed 8 squirrels from a home in Attleboro Ma. Two adult females and 5 juveniles were all using a very small hole that was not visible from the ground.
Squirrel Removal Service
Check out the look on the squirrel's face in the first picture. He just realized that he is about to be evicted. While working on this house I watched a flying squirrel glide from tree to tree in the backyard and managed to get a lousy picture of it. This was the first time I've ever seen one out in the daylight.
