A Young Squatter Squirrel
If you've been following this blog, you know we had a mama squirrel and her babies living in our attic space through the winter and spring. We constantly heard mama running across our ceilings all winter and suspected that she was making a nest for babies. Then, in early spring, the pitter-patter of little feet across our ceilings did indeed foretell the arrival of some babies. We then found a few areas around our roof and facia where the mama squirrel was entering and exiting the attic space and closed those access points. We caught and released mama but soon found that the babies were difficult to catch. I think the babies had difficulty finding their way from the ceiling areas between ceiling joists to the attic space where we positioned the trap. When the babies gained more mobility, two of them eventually found their way to the trap following the sweet aroma of some hot peanuts and peanut butter. Again, we released both of these young squirrels in our yard, under the