I've hate squirrels running around on the roof at night. At least I think they are squirrels. You just hear scurrying around in the dark. In one of my houses, squirrels got in through a gap in the roof overhang, had babies, and would not be kept out of the house. I covered the hole with a 2x4 and it chewed through that. I put up a mesh wire across the hole. It chewed through that. Finally, I had to trap it and haul it away. When the animal control guy came he put on a worn out glove, reached his hand into that trap and pulled that squirrel out of the trap and put in his truck. By the time he was done, he had a bloody hand cause that thing was biting the heck out of him. One day before it was caught, I saw it in the tree outside the house, so I stood between it and the house trying to shoe it the other way. Bad idea. It charged at me. After all that, I know a squirrel can get into these RV's if they want, so I hate hearing them at night.
On one trip after we extended the slides, the slide went up close to a tree and a branch rubbed at one of the windows in the wind. So, I was sitting there making breakfast and I hear a thud. I couldn't figure it out and it happened again. This time I see a bird trying to fly through a closed window. It must have tried 50 times to fly in through that window. It would sit on a branch and look into the RV and I'm sure he was thinking "I'll just fly in there and get some food". Entertaining, but the bird must have had a headache. Even when I tried to shoe it off, it would hover for a second and then try to fly right back in to that window.
Whether it's squirrels or birds, I think it helps to make sure trees are not in direct contact with the RV. That makes it to easy for them to get on the RV.
But it's all part of the experience that makes this stuff fun.
On one trip after we extended the slides, the slide went up close to a tree and a branch rubbed at one of the windows in the wind. So, I was sitting there making breakfast and I hear a thud. I couldn't figure it out and it happened again. This time I see a bird trying to fly through a closed window. It must have tried 50 times to fly in through that window. It would sit on a branch and look into the RV and I'm sure he was thinking "I'll just fly in there and get some food". Entertaining, but the bird must have had a headache. Even when I tried to shoe it off, it would hover for a second and then try to fly right back in to that window.
Whether it's squirrels or birds, I think it helps to make sure trees are not in direct contact with the RV. That makes it to easy for them to get on the RV.
But it's all part of the experience that makes this stuff fun.