Latest Wildlife Update — October 25, 2007
Since the last update we've been very busy with flying squirrel removal and mice proofing services. Every time the nighttime temperature dips into the 40's we get numerous calls for these two animals the following day. The arrival of the cold weather sends these nocturnal animals searching for a warm place to reside. A well insulated attic is like a 5-star resort to a mouse or a flying squirrel. This all results in a flurry of calls for us in a very short period of time.
Besides that we have done quite a few attic cleanouts and bat guano cleanup as of late. During the summer it is simply too hot in attics to perform these services so we try to schedule them for the fall. You can see one of our recent projects below.
In the last update I mentioned that I was planning on taking some much-needed time off. I recently traveled to Northern VT to perform a bat removal and exclusion service on a beautiful vacation home on a pristine mountain lake. We stayed at the house that we were working on for 3 days. I even managed to get in a little fishing. This is about as close to a "vacation" as I get.
Bat Poop Removal
We recently removal a few hundred pounds of bat droppings from a historic barn in Metro-west Boston. This colony of big brown bats had been residing in this structure for at least 20 years. The piles of bat guano in the loft were so high that we shoveled it!
Mouse Proofing
From a technician's perspective mouse proofing is rather boring. You don't have bats flying all over the place or raccoons running through attics or anything else exciting. Mouse proofing also doesn't generate many cool pictures. The pictures below are us crawling into a crawl-space to set traps and an active entry-point that mice were using alongside a chimney.
Vermont Bat Removal
Below are the pictures from my recent trip to Northern VT that I mentioned above.
