Urgent squirrel nest situation

[Cobleskill]

First one I saw I was a kid and it came flying out of the tree that my Dad was cutting. Last minute thing, the tree was at a 45* angle.

My son and I climbed with a bunch of them in the Red Oaks in front of the house a few years back. They were quite tolerant. Cute little buggers.

 

[flashover604]

Did you leave them be? Seems like you'd be required to evict them.

It's a grey area! Grey or fox squirrels get the boot if they don't have babies usually. If there are babies I usually replace the splice case and move the old one down the strand a little so they can stay inside. Technically I am supposed to evict them, but I don't go to church as often as I should, so I need all the help I can get!

 

[Limbrat]

We were encouraged to expel the squirrels but bird nests with eggs or hatchlings were a no no. They all like to raise their younguns in streetlight heads where it's nice and warm at night. Some of them get a little too hot when they make contact with exposed terminal blocks