Raccoon season is upon us. Look at the damage one did on this Greensburg, PA home! No wonder they have a reputation for being bandits. It’s not just their looks they get that nickname for, it is their behavior too! These raccoons removed the siding to gain access to a wall cavity.
Recently they completed a course on how to better serve bird issues. The instruction helped with the use of visual and sensory deterrents.
Groundhogs are starting to come out searching for mates. If you see fresh groundhog activity around your home let us know. Groundhogs will burrow under homes and can dig burrows under structures. This can cause settling and in some cases cracked foundations, cracked concrete, or sunken sheds. We can remove them and make the structure groundhog proof.
This Greensburg home had raccoons living in the attic space. With our methods, we were able to get the family of coons to leave the first night and NOT return.
Most of the time, a person thinks that they if they call a pest/wildlife control company, the critters will be euthanized. Not the case with Tall Timber Wildlife Services. If at all possible, Tall Timber tries to keep them in the area that they are familiar with but not becoming an issue.
In this video, the female adult raccoon is trying to coax the kit to come down the wall by pulling on it. Climbing things is a new activity for kits and sometimes they need some motherly influence.
Unfortunately, we are currently in the blackout period for bats. Bats are protected from May-August due to the birthing season. Customers often find bats in their living space this time of year. Typically it is young pups, or juveniles that are young and curious. They like to follow air currents and will end up somewhere they do not belong. If you find yourself with a bat inside your home give us a call. We can catch the bat and prepare it for rabies testing if needed. We will also provide temporary solutions to keeping them out of your living space until we can exclude them from your home in a few months.
This New Alexandria customer wanted a long-term solution to their custom attic vents before the house was painted. Tall Timber Wild Life Control installed custom vents to keep squirrels, birds, mice, and bugs out.
We had a customer in Jeannette, PA call us this past weekend as there was a raccoon terrorizing his roof. Within 24 hours the raccoon was captured and removed. The house is now set up for monitoring.
You can see in the attic photo above, the raccoon ripped up the insulation. Raccoons will also defecate in the attic. Not only will this cause increased energy bills, it will cause odor and sanitary issues as well.
Using thermal imaging, we needed to find the location of the nest. If the raccoon shows to have kits at the time of removal, then we will need to gain access to them in order to remove them as well.
This is the time of year when raccoons begin having their young in attics and chimneys. In the correct scenario, we offer harassment to cause the female to take her kits and leave. The time of year and the age of the kits are important when performing this method. Last year, Tall Timber Wildlife Services had a 100% success rate with our harassment program.
The actual hole that the raccoon created in the roof is shown below.
Can you see the place where mice chewed into the insulation? Mice were entering this Alverton, PA home around the block to the siding transition. We installed perforated metal to cover the gap to prevent bugs and mice from entering the home again.
An image of the area with our protective guard installed below.
