From the riverside trees to the roof line
Grey squirrels are just as agile moving through tree canopies and along garden fences as they are on the ground, just as near Barons Court, where mansion blocks and terraced streets between Hammersmith and West Kensington. Houses close to Bishops Park or the riverside usually have a branch overhanging the roof that acts as a bridge, and from there the squirrel needs only a weak spot at the eaves.
Bishops Park and the riverside
The mature trees along Bishops Park and the river put squirrels within easy reach of a great many nearby rooflines in Fulham and Barons Court. It's worth checking the eaves each autumn, ahead of squirrels looking for winter shelter once the weather turns, as anyone near Barons Court will recognise, where mansion blocks and terraced streets between Hammersmith and West Kensington.
Squares and gardens around Parsons Green
The green itself, and the mature trees in the gardens around Parsons Green, give squirrels a similar route onto the larger Victorian houses nearby, even where individual gardens have fewer mature trees of their own.
Confirming it is a squirrel
Timing alone often gives the strongest indication, much as it does near Shepherd's Bush, where ex-council estates and Victorian terraces near the Green and Westfield. Because squirrels are daytime creatures, running and thumping noises around sunrise and late afternoon suggest a squirrel; overnight noise points to rats or mice instead, as anyone near Fulham will recognise, where tightly packed Victorian terraces stretching from the King's Road end down towards the river.
Checking for damage
A torch shone in from the hatch is usually enough: look for flattened or torn insulation, chewed timber, gnawed boxes and droppings around the water tank, no need to climb in, as anyone near White City will recognise, where new-build residential towers and regenerated estates around the old exhibition site. If cable has been gnawed, that's the most serious sign, bare wiring is a fire hazard, so don't touch it and get an electrician out, much as it does near White City, where new-build residential towers and regenerated estates around the old exhibition site.
What not to do
- Block the entry hole while squirrels may still be inside; they chew a new way out, sometimes into the house
- Put down poison in the loft
- Catch a squirrel and release it elsewhere
It's worth knowing the law here: as an invasive non-native species, a grey squirrel cannot legally be released back into the wild once trapped, true near White City too, where new-build residential towers and regenerated estates around the old exhibition site.
Booking squirrel control in Hammersmith and Fulham
Our squirrel trapping service in Hammersmith and Fulham is £280, and since around Fulham, where tightly packed Victorian terraces stretching from the King's Road end down towards the river, it helps to say when you book squirrel control whether the sounds are by day or night and whether trees overhang the roof, with more on the Hammersmith and Fulham squirrel control page.
