Blossom's new baby (her 3rd) has been named Sprout. I am not sure, but I think Sprout is female.
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| Sprout - 11th Oct 2024 |
Sprout is now back-riding.
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| Sprout riding on Blossom's back - 14th Oct 2024 |
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| Sprout riding on Blossom's back - 17th Oct 2024 |
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| Sprout riding on Blossom's back - 17th Oct 2024 |
Meanwhile, Grok is now starting to become independent from Wink. He has slept on his own in Box 7 twice, and he and Wink now usually visit separately.
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| Grok (left) and Wink (right) - 11th Oct 2024 |
It seems that Grok was not traumatised by his first encounter with
Laslo, where he was attacked and fell out of the tree. Recently he was seen giving cheek to Laslo. Laslo and Grok were peacefully eating food in a tree, Grok finished first and then advanced down the tree towards Laslo probably with the aim of taking food off him. Both ended up taking a few swipes at each other's faces before Grok was chased off a short way. Later Grok came back and Laslo ran off.
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| Grok (top) giving cheek to Laslo (bottom) - 11th Oct 2024 |
Laslo is much bigger than Grok (more so than it looks in the photo) and could easily beat him up, but wasn't interested this time.
Laslo hasn't visited for a while, and I'm beginning to wonder whether the possum using Box 3 is really Laslo. The camera in Box 3 is so bad that it's not possible to be certain.
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| Laslo - 9th Oct 2024 |
It looks like the brush turkeys are breeding. In this photo,
Saskia appears to be laying eggs in Merlin's mound, with
Merlin supervising.
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| Merlin (left) and Saskia (right) - 12th Oct 2024 |
It's nice to meet Blossom, she's very cute! Is it common for the younger possum to stay in the current home to sleep without their mother as they get more independent? I would've thought Wink would stay and Grok would find a different spot to sleep, rather than Grok sleeping on his own
ReplyDelete*Sprout, not blossom.
DeleteGrok is at a relatively early stage of independence and it's not unusual for a youngster of this age to use his mother's box, which is at least familiar. One night recently he visited Box 4 so he might start trying out other sleeping spots before long, but every possum is different.
DeleteSprout is very, very cute and very, very active with mum on my possum.tv!
ReplyDeleteAre there any plans to fix Box 3 and Box 6's cameras in the future?
Two things that have been delaying me are that Box 3 is really difficult to access and it takes quite some time to assemble a new camera. I now fit the camera inside a metal enclosure and I also install conduit and a junction box to protect the connectors. Everything needs more protection than I anticipated when I first put the system together - water gets into connectors, ants build nests around the electronics and last year the camera itself in Box 3 was attacked by a kookaburra.
DeleteWith Box 6, the problem is that this box was intended for sugar gliders. It has a tiny entrance hole which prevents larger creatures from entering. So far, not once has it even been visited by sugar gliders and over-development in the local area means there are unlikely to be any sugar gliders around any more.
So I really want to replace the entire box and that's more work than I'm up for at the moment although I do intend to do this some time.
Different Anonymous here... Carpet Python in Box 2!!! Possums have wisely decided not to use boxes today...
ReplyDeleteOops, I see it entered last night and you made a comment in video history.
DeleteCan I ask what you mean by video history? Is there a place to see notes on things that happen in a box?
DeleteThere is a page where you can look at video footage that was automatically recorded.
Deletehttp://possum.tv/movies.html
Since there's a lot of footage and much of it is uninteresting, there is a column where I can add comments about what is happening during each video.
Lately, I have been very slack about updating this - it's quite a bit of work to review the videos and I keep falling behind - but I did make note of when the python was around recently.
Ah, thank you! I'd looked through the highlights before, but didn't realize the raw footage got notations for special events! I appreciate all the effort you put into this, so thank you for what you can manage!
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