Badger Galore
Staying ‘Up Over’ for a while.
Front or back?
So...Will and I have been busy for the last few days.
I would say that we have been working at the back of the house but Will calls it the front, I think because it faces north. Anyway, for me it will always be the back of the house.
First we built a new small, back deck...
Then we revamped the shower area...
We no longer have to stand in a trug! (Why would you ever have an open air shower at the 'front' of your house?!!! I rest my case!)
I also built a new possum box for Jnr by the new back deck. ( He woke us up at 4.30 am frantically trying to get back in the roof again but failed and retired to the 'Front' deck box again.) It will be somewhere to escape to if Mum decides to sleep in the other box.
25 seconds of breakfast.
So...this little fellow had a quarrel with Mum last night and there was a lot of chasing going on across the roof. He has to go out into the big wide world now. I was reading that usually available dens are are fully occupied by adult possums and a possum without a den will not survive. This means that as juvenile possums become independent and disperse many will die from being unable to establish a home range.
I was worried about Jnr because he was making his den in the roof until we blocked it all off. I heard him last night trying to get back in the roof again and actually thought he had managed it but this evening he hopped out of the possum box on the deck.
I have spent much of the day today building a new box for him in case Mum decides to sleep in the deck box. I was hoping to get it finished and set up tonight at the back of the house but it will have to wait until tomorrow now.
We have had a busy few days working on house improvements...more on that tomorrow.
A Possum P.S.
So...our naughty boy did not attempt to get into the roof this morning but slept somewhere else instead. Tonight Mum reappeared after dusk. I think she might have been sleeping in the box today. Just before bed Jnr appeared too so this morning he might find the access to his usual sleep quarters a little troublesome.
I am thinking I might have to make him a box of his own now he has gone solo.
He's a very naughty boy!
Yes! He got back in again! He is some kind of possum contortionist!
I know it looks like it would be easy to get in but that's because we had to make an easy exit for him tonight. We blocked up the the way he got in firmly, during the day today and have fastened up the gap he came out of tonight, so hopefully, finally, the roof is possum proof.
Famous last words....