From the trees to the roof line
Tree canopies pose little challenge to a grey squirrel, and a branch reaching over a roof acts as a ready-made bridge to the eaves, as anyone near Sydenham will recognise, where hillside Victorian terraces climbing towards the ridge. Near mature trees, all a squirrel needs is a weak point at the roofline to get into a house, true near Lewisham too, where the town centre and surrounding streets.
Blythe Hill and Hilly Fields
The Victorian streets surrounding Blythe Hill and Hilly Fields sit beneath mature trees on open, elevated ground, giving squirrels a clear route from the green space straight to nearby rooftops.
Brockley's conservation-area gardens
Brockley's well-preserved terraced streets often have mature gardens of their own, and older, larger loft spaces here give a squirrel more room once inside than a newer conversion elsewhere.
Confirming it is a squirrel
Timing alone often gives the strongest indication, whether that's near Lewisham, where the town centre and surrounding streets, or elsewhere in the borough. Timing gives it away: squirrels are only active during daylight hours, so early-morning and late-afternoon thumping fits a squirrel, while any noise overnight means rats or mice, as anyone near Forest Hill will recognise, where steep residential streets of Victorian terraces near Horniman Museum and the railway.
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
One point is purely legal rather than practical, grey squirrels are classed as invasive non-natives, and releasing a trapped one back into the wild is illegal, just as near Catford, where victorian terraces and postwar estates spreading out from the town centre and shopping area.
Booking squirrel control in Lewisham
Our squirrel trapping service in Lewisham is £280, and since around Lewisham, where the town centre and surrounding streets, 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 Lewisham squirrel control page.
