Baby squirrels...

I have also moved nests...but only birds. I never was sure that it worked.

My friend Scott Altenhoff has had a ton of experience with wildlife in trees. He has pictures of moving a cavity nest in a chunk of wood to a tree adjacent to the removal (that has the nest)...the parent birds kept flying in and out of the nest as he moved it!!

He says that it is important to put the nest hole in the same orientation that it was it. I will try ot find the pic and post it.

Another friend who works a lot banding raptors often removes young bvirds from the nests...climbs up with the bird to the cliff top so the biologists can do their thing and then and raos back down puts them back.

I know I swithced from squirrels to birds but...

Is anyone out there familiar with the Migratory Bird Act? This law if enforced would keep many of us from working at certain times of year.

Scott
 
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I'll be damned if I'll fall it with baby squirrels in it.

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I did this once unknowingly, 3 baby squirrels - 2 dead on impact, one of them's skin was removed from its head like a little hood, it had a bright red skull, fiercesome looking, Dead though.

The one that survived spent the day on my shoulder, clinging on for dear life as I felled more trees.

Took it home and gave it some warm cows milk - it died. Probably for the best.

The moral of the story is - baby squirrels can make you feel guilty as hell.

I kill them now if the mother has gone, as I don't want kitty to find them and play with them for 2 hours before disembowelling them.
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Hmmm, my post disappeared.

I went back up and checked the nest yesterday and they were gone. I'm pretty sure the mother moved them.

Trees are on the ground, a little cleanup tomorrow. The squirrel tree gave me a an awakening... that's two on the one job... and neither were related to my biggest worry which was the trees were dead.
 
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I went back up and checked the nest yesterday and they were gone. I'm pretty sure the mother moved them.

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Or, they were a snack for some other critter.
 
Yes Butch, God did give us dominion, but He also gave us a responsibility. We have responsibility to take care of creation.

Accidentally killing them (being unaware they are there in the first place) is sometimes difficult to avoid.

Maliciously killing the little pests is a different issue.
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I personally don't like them because they girdle branches with their chewing. I have seen small to medium sized trees killed due to the chewing. So, in that context I don't like them.--On the other hand, they are comical to watch.

However, to answer the question...

I have called the humane society to get them if they have been injured. I also learned if you accidentlly knock them out of the tree in the nest, you can leave them at the base of the tree (or a neighboring tree) and the mother will re-locate them.
 
you should do to the baby squirrels what i do with any kittens or puppys that i come across...... put them in a bag with a brick and chuck it in the river!!!!


now i need to go put on my slippers made out of the ears of baby seals.


if god did not want us to eat animals, then he would not have made them out of meat!!!
 
just jokeing!


well not about the meat part



I have rescued several squirrels(and 1 baby raccon) and raised them

my last two died pretty early, i was trying to train them to set lines for me..... i hope to keep trying next year


last year i caught a flying squirrel... very cool, but he had a bad temperment and he would bite anybody that tried to handle him. i learned a good lesson about squirrels with that one: you have to get them young to train them not to bite, and you can not leave the with unlimited amounts of food..... they will not self regulate. my little flyer ate himself to deth..


the first one that i caught(12 years ago) i had the most sucess with. he lived about 2 years and was very playfull and fun to have around.... I killed him by letting him have too many peanut M&M's He was very cool though and i hope that i can find another like him
 
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I went back up and checked the nest yesterday and they were gone. I'm pretty sure the mother moved them.

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Or, they were a snack for some other critter.

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Or even better, maybe she moved them to the tree about 20' down the hill... which I also cut down.
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Alot of you guys would probably like the tee shirt that used to be popular "NUKE THE WHALES, CLUB THE SEALS"
 
Hey Blinky

Its always intersting but seldom fun to find I have disturbed an active nest.

Our contracts actually let folks know that if we find an active nest with any little ones in it we'll stop work until they fledge or are successfully moved. But we won't do the moving.

I am a hunter and I do hunt all sorts of stuff, including squirrels. I just don't see any sense in snuffing out baby anythings especially for the sake of making a dollar.

Sometimes we don't see the nest before cutting down the tree. When that happens it is unfortunate and we'll try to assemble the critters and thier nest out of the way for the parents to find them but I don't loose any sleep over it either.

Probably seems contradictory, I think it rather pragmatic.
 
''The job is more important that the rodents." thats a [censored] Attitude MasterBlaster
all animals are inportant! ant other vegan climbers?
 
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