Hopefully it is just passing by or as my friend says, passing through and is not looking for a place to live, especially if you have not done any inspections for holes and cracks for a while. It is looking for a home and you haven't done any inspections then it's probably going to be in your roof or your attic within an hour or so because your roof looks like a wonderful place to live to nearly every Aurora critter you can think of. The first thing you should do is go and have a look and see if the animal leaves when it sees you looking at it.



Most wild animals if spotted, tip here, use a torch at night, will leave as fast as their little legs can carry them, but there is always a chance the animal is stuck on the roof, this happens when they do something like jump from the tree that is close but now they don't have the nerve to complete the reverse jump. The easiest way to tell if an Illinois animal is stuck on the roof is it will still be there a few hours later, after you've tried to frighten it away. If the animal is stuck on the roof, or even if you think it is, then provide it away to get off the roof, you can throw a rope and it will use it to climb down to the ground and then run away, use your imagination remembering most of these animals are expert climbers on anything they can take hold of.

If on the other hand your local wildlife population of climbers is using your roof as a highway and in the process keeping everyone awake half the night and driving the dogs and cats crazy then you might want to investigate why your roof. The most likely reason is that your roof is somewhere between their nests and either a source of food or a source of clean water, without those things being involved they probably wouldn't bother with your roof at all. Once you are totally fed up with losing sleep over this you need to take note of where they come onto the roof and where they exit the roof, you have to remember that these two points will be reversed when the animal is coming back.

In daylight hours you can have a look and see what they are doing. If they are jumping from a tree onto your roof it may be as simple as trimming the tree back a bit to get them to find another route. If they jumping from your neighbor's roof onto yours you may have to erect some kind of barrier they cannot climb on to stop them.

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