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Related: About this forumLook who was visiting the bird feeder this morning
Snowy went absolutely nuts when she realized it wasn't just another squirrel!
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)They come onto our deck looking for fallen seeds from the feeder, but usually waddle away when I yell.
The raccoons, OTOH, have been climbing a trellis to reach and pull down our feeders!
mnhtnbb
(31,407 posts)it. We used to have a big raccoon that was living in a tree on our lot, but haven't seen
him for a long time.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)mnhtnbb
(31,407 posts)Agschmid
(28,749 posts)Haha...
mnhtnbb
(31,407 posts)Solly Mack
(90,789 posts)NV Whino
(20,886 posts)He would come up on the porch and crack walnuts under my bedroom window... at midnight.
alfredo
(60,077 posts)diseases affect them. They still haven't adapted to cars.
mnhtnbb
(31,407 posts)He should be able to get around on the hills pretty well without venturing into any busy streets.
alfredo
(60,077 posts)But the real impact of this result comes into focus in a mathematical model the authors develop to determine the effects of removing each of the six hosts from a woodland ecosystem. Removing intermediately-useful hosts like veeries or catbirds doesn't have much effect on tick density. On the other hand, if you remove very tick-friendly hosts like the white-footed mice, tick populations plummet. And if you remove opossums, they increase dramatically. This is important because, the authors say, larger mammal species are the first to leave as patches of woodland are reduced to make way for human development -- so an early effect of woodland fragmentation may be to reduce or eliminate opossums in that woodland, and boost the density of disease-bearing ticks.
Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)I went out to get the feeder and bring it in for the night so that I wasn't feeding the raccoons, who are such hogs, and there he/she was. I have always heard that they will "play possum" and act like they are dead when confronted----WRONG. This one stood it's ground and hissed at me, no matter how close I got. In the battle of who is the toughest, the opossum won...I went back into the house and left the feeder outside.
mnhtnbb
(31,407 posts)Took these photos from our elevated deck looking down on the feeder.
alfredo
(60,077 posts)Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)alfredo
(60,077 posts)justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)my best friend rescued a baby possum she found along side the road... when I say baby, I mean it was still naked at the time she found him. She named him Benji and he lived for four years with her and her family until he died. I remember he liked snuggling the best.
NCarolinawoman
(2,825 posts)She would often have me help out with her overflow of mammals and birds. I went from thinking possums were kind of ugly to thinking they were downright CUTE. There were so many orphaned babies.