Hello everyone, I'm new to posting here though have lurked and found so much wonderful information here for so long time, but I can't find any posts where this particular issue has come up.
We love our area squirrels and do everything we can to make our back yard an area they can find food, water, shelter, and people who will respect and love them even if they barely catch a glimpse of us. One of furry friends has injured his front paw, and I'm not entirely sure how. He is a frequent visitor (stops in several times each day), and on the day he was injured I had seen and even caught some adorable videos of him not more than an hour before he limped back in cradling is left front paw. In fact, my toddler and I were watching the shadow of a squirrel which turned out to be him, running across the roof quite normally, only a few minutes before. Since he can still climb, though it looks obviously painful, I made no attempts to capture him as I feared that would be traumatic and likely he'd hurt himself worse trying to escape. My thought was that it seems likely that he will recover on his own - if you all advise otherwise, we have a wonderful vet who happens to volunteer at the local wildlife rescue so I know if it is necessary, the only issue will be in catching the poor guy.

So he has been less playful and very cautious and his little paw obviously hurts. I'm going to try to post a few pics but I had a hard time getting a pic from just the right angle. Since this little guy has come around here for quite a while, he is at least used to my face at the window and i'm fairly certain he knows that me holding my bucket means that if he wants to sit in the tree for a minute, there will be food and water momentarily. I never go out on the deck if the squirrels are still on it unless it's an emergency, but they all will hop over to the tree if i'm holding my feed bucket instead of my camera! He actually stayed on the yesterday while i opened the window and shooed off another male squirrel that was bothering him - he and this other fella usually are competing with each other for the attention of the lady squirrels. I'm not sure how he could know, but he seemed to sense that I wasn't threatening him.

Sorry this was so long winded! my question is: is there anything I can do that might help him? Supplements? Anything that might help him heal faster? I noticed he has been spending a lot of time resting in a tree in my yard so I left clean water and a small bowl of almonds and walnuts dusted with a tiny bit of calcium supplement at the base of the tree. I called the local wildlife rehab, and they advised that if he seems to be taking care of himself relatively normally, they would not recommend trying to capture him. I just really hate seeing this little guy in pain and cried my eyes out on Monday when it happened! Thank you in advance if there is any advice you can give! Haven't got the pics figured out yet so that will come in second post.