Animal Sounds In My Attic

You may hear scratching or thumping or scittering or nuts rolling around or even vocal noises.

Animal sounds in my attic. It will make heavy thudding dragging slower moving sounds. Flapping sounds and chirping. By turning on bright lights and a radio you can make your attic an unpleasant environment to encourage raccoons to leave on their own. Raccoons are capable of ripping shingles off and chewing holes in buildings.

They can just somehow tell they have a snake up there. Raccoons can enter your attic through loose shingles and or openings the roof and eaves. Mice and squirrels can be heard gnawing and moving throughout the attic. The first indicator of an animal problem in the attic is the noise.

Sounds coming from your attic could be from a number of causes pipes settling wind but the most common cause is the presence of an animal or animals in the attic. You re most likely dealing with a nocturnal animal since you hear noises at night so it may not be squirrel. Bats in attics can make noises. Raccoons rats mice and squirrels all scratch.

But attics are the favorite spot for wild animals. One of the most obvious and distinct noises in the attic or within the home is chirping. With bird habitats becoming more and more scarce around the u s these animals are beginning to find alternative options such as our homes. Most animals scratch in the attic to clear out space for nesting or maybe to bury food.

Raccoons make certain attic noises. Slithering sounds is how my customers have described it to me. This is an immediate sign that birds are nesting within your home or business. If you are hearing animal sounds in your attic at night it is most commonly a raccoon because they are nocturnal animals and thus most active at night.

But you still don t know what type of animal or animals are up there. Most of the sound will be during the daytime since most birds are diurnal. They are the largest animal that will enter your home. A large slow nocturnal animal you might just hear walking in the attic.