WESTFIELD – Three baby squirrels survived their encounter with a team of roofers and, although they were displaced, appear to have been reunited with their mother.
The city’s animal control officer, Kerri Francis, reported Wednesday that she had been contacted by a member of a roofing crew working to replace a roof on Pearl Street and the man told her that the crew had discovered a nest with three baby squirrels in a rain gutter.
Francis said that the workers put the babies, and the mulch they were nesting in, into a bucket, all the while listening to the mother squirrel who was “going crazy.”
The ACO said that when she arrived she put the babies into a hollow at the base of a nearby oak tree and covered them with the nesting mulch.
When the crew left for the day, Francis said, one of the members called her and reported that he babies were still where she left them but a check later revealed them to be gone.
Francis said that she believes that the mother squirrel was too scared by the roofers’ activity to immediately return for her babies but, once they left, she came back and moved the little squirrels to a new home.
