Hi Everybody, I’m not sure if I have cause to be concerned or not but Im writing regarding a young squirrel. I live in Queens, NY so these are grey squirrels. A family of them are currently living in my roof, from what I can tell there are two young ones (not sure how old but maybe less than 10wks?. I’ll include pics) and the parents. This poses its own problems I know, but that’s for another day; the youngsters climb about the front of the house regularly and around my windows, their nest is just above me with the opening being on the inside of the gutter (I live on the second floor of a 2family house).
The other night I noticed the youngsters were chilling on my windowsill, one fell and had a little blood on his nose but they continued to sit there. The Momma was clearly calling for them to return home and eventually started coming down to them, picking at them and at one point she tried to pull one of the babies with her mouth. Both babies then started taking turns going back and forth to the nest or at least the gutter that leads to it. Then the same baby that fell, fell again and mom freaked out. I went out to look for him but he already made it back to the nest by the time I got my flashlight and was outside. I could hear him crying from the nest but the other little dude stayed on my window for the rest of the night and early the next morning. He even was clawing at my window.
Fast forward to now, the little guy goes during the day and then curls up in the corner of the gutter at night, but not before knocking on my window. I don’t know why he doesn’t go back to the nest or why the mom hasn’t come for him. He’s spent one night on my window and two in the gutter and has come to my window every day since and aside from the window visits, I don’t know if this is normal or if intervention is needed. I’m sorry for the long winded story but I wanted to give details Incase something seemingly unimportant actually turns out to be important. Thank you for any and all help
Ps. The stupid pics are sideways and I can’t seem to fix that so apologies on that one