Wildlife Removal in Springfield, TN

Springfield is the Robertson County seat, and the wildlife work here reflects a farming county more than a suburb. Row crop and pasture ground runs right up to the town's edge, and the properties we service often include a barn, a tobacco barn, a shop or a grain structure alongside the house. Those buildings were never built to be sealed, and they support far larger populations than a residential attic ever would.

That means a lot of our Springfield calls start in an outbuilding. Birds, particularly starlings and swallows, take the open ledges and rafters in barns and equipment sheds in numbers, and the droppings accumulate on equipment and walkways below. Bats find loft space and roof gaps in older barns and settle in colonies bigger than anything we typically remove from a house. Once those structures are occupied, the house nearby is simply the next building in the territory.

The residential side of Springfield has its own character: an older core of homes around the square and the surrounding streets, many with wood soffits, wood fascia, brick chimneys and attic vents from a period long before wildlife screening was standard. Raccoons and squirrels work those details the same way they do in Madison, and the chimneys in particular come up often — an uncapped flue is an open den site.

Distance is part of the job here too. On a working property, a problem can go unnoticed for a season because nobody is in the loft or the back shed daily, so by the time we are called the contamination is significant and the cleanup is a real part of the scope. We inspect the house and the accessory structures together in Springfield, because sealing one and leaving the other simply moves the animals across the yard.