On the Camden County map, Collingswood is the classic streetcar borough: dense blocks, homes from the 1900s through the 1920s, and mature maples and oaks arching over every street. Those canopies are squirrel highways straight onto the rooflines, and Knight Park in the center of town plus the two creek corridors keep the supply constant. This is old-house wildlife work, and it's some of our favorite.
Recent Acorn Jobs in Collingswood
Recent borough calls, kept to the neighborhood level. If you own a Collingswood foursquare, at least one of these will sound familiar.
Knight Park Side: Squirrels
Grays running a maple limb onto a foursquare's box gutter and in through a rotted end cap. Excluded, gutter end rebuilt and screened.
Newton Lake: Raccoon
Raccoon denned under a wraparound porch two blocks off the lake. Humane trap set at the burrow mouth, porch skirting sealed in buried hardware cloth.
Haddon Avenue Blocks: Bats
Little browns behind a Victorian's slate ridge flashing. Valves set after the blackout lifted, ridge sealed with slate-safe methods.
Wildlife Services in Collingswood
Every core service, with old-house experience included and response times measured from Deer Road.
Also serving Collingswood: opossum removal, bird and vent control, snake removal, mole control, dead animal removal, wildlife exclusion and repairs, and attic cleanup and sanitization.
What We Get Called for Most in Collingswood
Squirrels, decisively. Collingswood's street trees touch the rooflines on block after block, and a gray squirrel treats a maple limb over a box gutter as a front door. The houses cooperate: hundred-year-old wood soffits, slate with slipped pieces, and gutter ends that rot from the inside. Raccoons run second, mostly in uncapped chimneys and under the borough's generous porches. Bats run third, and older Collingswood attics are exactly the tall, warm, undisturbed spaces little browns look for.
The water matters too. Newton Lake and Newton Creek on the south side and the Cooper River parkland on the north wrap the borough in den habitat, so the supply of wildlife never really drops. Acorn Wildlife in Collingswood, NJ solves that the only way that lasts: humane removal, then exclusion repairs done with materials and methods that suit a century-old house. We don't foam a slate roofline and call it sealed.
Spring
Squirrel litters in rooflines and chimney raccoons with kits. Family removals, never a lit fireplace.
Summer
Bat maternity season in the big attics. Inspections now, legal valve installs when the blackout lifts.
Fall
Squirrels caching hard and mice slipping into fieldstone foundations before the freeze.
Winter
Raccoons holding warm flues and attics. A capped chimney in autumn prevents a February den.
Five-Minute Checks for a Collingswood Century Home
✓ Stand across the street and follow every tree limb that touches or overhangs the roof. Each one is a route.
✓ Check the chimney for a cap and the crown for gaps. Open flues are the borough's raccoon dens.
✓ Look at the box gutter ends for staining, chew marks, or daylight.
✓ Scan the slate for slipped or missing pieces near the ridge, the classic bat entry.
✓ Check porch skirting for pushed-in lattice or fresh digging, the skunk and raccoon giveaway.
Any one of those is worth a call. The inspection is included, the entry map is photographed, and the quote is written before we touch the house.
Acorn techs sealing a soffit return — the classic squirrel entry point.
Areas We Work in Collingswood
Knight Park
Newton Lake side
Cooper River side
Haddon Avenue corridor
PATCO station blocks
Humane removal — every animal handled with care.
Collingswood Wildlife FAQs
How fast can you get to Collingswood?
Who handles stray dogs and cats in Collingswood?
Will exclusion work damage my home's historic look?
There are birds in my chimney every summer. Bats too?
Nearby Service Areas
Collingswood, Let's Get It Out
Twelve minutes from our Deer Road office, and gentle with the old houses. Inspection included.