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| Wasabi (left) and Oz (right) - 15th June 2014 [Photo by Xesce] |
There have been several other ringtails seen about the place, but these have been difficult to identify. Tilda and Ruby are probably amongst them.
Saturday, 21 June 2014
Update 21st June 2014
Wasabi has been visiting regularly. He and Oz tolerate each other reasonably well.
There have been several other ringtails seen about the place, but these have been difficult to identify. Tilda and Ruby are probably amongst them.
There have been several other ringtails seen about the place, but these have been difficult to identify. Tilda and Ruby are probably amongst them.
Friday, 13 June 2014
Silly Searches
One of the fun things about having a web site is looking through the statistics and finding the weird search search terms that lead people to it. Unfortunately, Google are now starting to block this information (presumably for devious commercial motives), so this activity will soon become a thing of the past.
Anyway, while I still have the chance, I thought I'd share some of the search terms used on the Possum TV webcam server and Youtube channel (for some reason Blogger logs almost nothing).
For the most part, people are interested in possum sounds, possums mating or possum mating sounds. The majority of the search terms are therefore pretty predictable.
However...
Anyway, while I still have the chance, I thought I'd share some of the search terms used on the Possum TV webcam server and Youtube channel (for some reason Blogger logs almost nothing).
For the most part, people are interested in possum sounds, possums mating or possum mating sounds. The majority of the search terms are therefore pretty predictable.
However...
Saturday, 31 May 2014
Update 31st May 2014
Oz is now independent of Kiki. They generally visit the house at different times, and Kiki chases Oz away when she see him. Hopefully Oz won't be chased away for good until springtime.
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| Oz - 30th May 2014 |
Tuesday, 13 May 2014
Saturday, 19 April 2014
Update 19th Apr 2014
Wasabi has been seen again. He is healthy and his tail injury continues to improve.
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| Wasabi - 19th April 2014 |
Friday, 18 April 2014
Update your bookmarks (again)!
If you have the possum webcam site at possum.dyndns.tv bookmarked, you will need to change the link to http://possum.tv.
I've just been informed that DynDNS are cancelling their free accounts from 7th May 2014, which means that any links to the possum webcam server at http://possum.dyndns.tv will (presumably) stop working after this date - unless I move to a paid account. Since I now have the possum.tv domain, and the dyndns domain name wasn't a very good one to begin with (I only got it because it was free), there's no reason to pay to keep it alive.
For what it's worth, I have temporarily set up possum.dyndns.tv to redirect to possum.tv, but this will stop working when possum.dyndns.tv dies.
Sunday, 6 April 2014
Wasabi is back!
Just a quick note to say that Wasabi has been seen tonight for the first time
since his release from hospital over three weeks ago. He looks healthy and is still as friendly and happy as ever.
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| Wasabi - 6th April 2014 |
Friday, 4 April 2014
Update 4th Apr 2014
The young ringtail who visited last time has been given a name: Batgirl. She is brave and athletic, and when her name was mentioned to her, she responded with an energetic leap onto a nearby branch, as if saying that she likes the name.
Batgirl (who is probably the daughter of Tilda and Wasabi) seems to like humans; she tends to come closer when humans are around, whereas other ringtails usually retreat, but she doesn't accept food. It's probably good that a young ringtail sticks to natural foods anyway.
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| Batgirl (all she needs is a cape) - 31st Mar 2014 |
Batgirl (who is probably the daughter of Tilda and Wasabi) seems to like humans; she tends to come closer when humans are around, whereas other ringtails usually retreat, but she doesn't accept food. It's probably good that a young ringtail sticks to natural foods anyway.
Sunday, 30 March 2014
New domain name
I've managed to obtain the domain name possum.tv. Previously it was being used by some Russian site, but it seems they shut down some time ago and let the registration lapse.
This means that you can get to the possum webcam server via http://possum.tv and http://www.possum.tv, as well as the original link http://possum.dyndns.tv.
Also, this blog is now at http://blog.possum.tv. The original link http://possumtv.blogspot.com.au will still work, and redirects to the new domain name.
What do you need to do?
As far as the blog goes, both the old and the new link will always work correctly, so you don't have to change anything.[edit: If you use an RSS feed, you might have noticed all of the entries have changed to "unread". This is a one-off thing caused by the old domain name redirecting to the new one, and can be ignored.]
The Possum TV Live webcam server is a little more tricky because it's still on a dynamic IP address. While both links will normally work there are situations where either or both may stop working for a while. I would recommend changing your link to http://possum.tv, but for the time being keep a backup link to http://possum.dyndns.tv.
In other news, I've also found a typo in the script that takes snapshots of possum boxes. The effect of this bug was that if the system was a bit slow, rather than waiting for a new snapshot to be generated (as intended), it instead returned an older snapshot in its place. This has now (hopefully) been fixed. I apologise to anyone who has lost snapshots due to this bug.
This means that you can get to the possum webcam server via http://possum.tv and http://www.possum.tv, as well as the original link http://possum.dyndns.tv.
Also, this blog is now at http://blog.possum.tv. The original link http://possumtv.blogspot.com.au will still work, and redirects to the new domain name.
What do you need to do?
As far as the blog goes, both the old and the new link will always work correctly, so you don't have to change anything.[edit: If you use an RSS feed, you might have noticed all of the entries have changed to "unread". This is a one-off thing caused by the old domain name redirecting to the new one, and can be ignored.]
The Possum TV Live webcam server is a little more tricky because it's still on a dynamic IP address. While both links will normally work there are situations where either or both may stop working for a while. I would recommend changing your link to http://possum.tv, but for the time being keep a backup link to http://possum.dyndns.tv.
In other news, I've also found a typo in the script that takes snapshots of possum boxes. The effect of this bug was that if the system was a bit slow, rather than waiting for a new snapshot to be generated (as intended), it instead returned an older snapshot in its place. This has now (hopefully) been fixed. I apologise to anyone who has lost snapshots due to this bug.
Friday, 21 March 2014
Update 21st Mar 2014
Wasabi hasn't been seen since his release from hospital over a week ago. It's normal for him to go away for long periods of time, so this is not a cause for concern, but it would still be very good to know how he's getting on.
Recently a very young ringtail, who is quite probably the offspring of Tilda and Wasabi, came to the house and sat on the hand-rail of the balcony, undeterred by the presence of humans. The ringtail wasn't after food (at least s/he ignored small pieces of apple and pear on the handrail), and it's almost as if the little one was a messenger from Wasabi: "go to the humans and tell them that I'm alright".
Recently a very young ringtail, who is quite probably the offspring of Tilda and Wasabi, came to the house and sat on the hand-rail of the balcony, undeterred by the presence of humans. The ringtail wasn't after food (at least s/he ignored small pieces of apple and pear on the handrail), and it's almost as if the little one was a messenger from Wasabi: "go to the humans and tell them that I'm alright".
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| Baby Ringtail - 19th Mar 2014 |
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