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noises in attic at night?

Hello,
have a 2-story home in north GA and we keep hearing noises
in the attic only on colder nights.

I just had this problem, so here’s my story of bat poop, snakes, and mice:

It was the second or third night of our first cold weather of the year and I was just about to fall asleep. I heard some scratching noises on the wood, but could not tell if it was tree branches scraping the house on a windy night or if it was coming from the attic. The next day, I checked around the house and there were no branches hitting that side of the house, so I wondered if it was coming from the attic.

The next night I heard the same noises. They didn’t last long but they were very loud directly above my head and a bit alarming since I didn’t know the noise’s source…so I called my pest control company to come take a look. Fortunately, I pay for quarterly bug spraying, where the price includes them coming out any other time for everything except bed bugs (blech). The guy went into the attic and informed me that he saw “burrowing holes” in the insulation in the area directly above my bedroom. There was also bat poop and a few dead mice where they had eaten through the gable vent to get inside the attic. He also informed me that he saw a snake skin, which suggested that snakes were coming in to feed on the mice. After I stopped shuddering, I tried to just mark it up to that’s how things are in the “web of life”

He called another guy to come out to put up steel mesh wire, then thick board and then some more mesh wire to seal up the gable vent. He suggested doing it this way as to stop further breaches. They also cleaned up all the bat poop, dead mice, and laid some rat poison down (After they were done, I also had a friend who’s a home inspector come by to inspect what they did).

Two nights later the noise stopped and it’s now been two months without issue.