Not to sound like a complete moron here, but, “Hmm… 2 days, huh? I doubt it’ll come back a 3rd time!” So here I am again, one more time I decided to test my project with the ‘possums - but this time, I tried something a little different… or should I say a “big” different — as a test, I made a larger-form project with a larger piece of foam and a larger bag, to see if they would try to get to 3 different holes inside of the bag with bread in them. This time, I also put another camera outside, aimed at the project from the front. I exercised the “watched pot” theory again, and ignored the project for a few hours. (→ continue on with September 20, 2005 - Possum Trifecta!)
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“OK - an opossum came! But that was just a fluke, right?” I set up the project again, turned on the little light, put a small bit of bread out again, turned on the camera that actually provides the video source, wired another camera to the inside (Don’t you just love cheap $20 broken camcorders from eBay? That $20 camera is actually one of my main cameras! Check out the crow videos, especially 6/10/05, for an example… but anyway…) with the mic hooked to it, and waited. But this time was even rarer than the last! I set the project up at 8pm… the possum came at 9:10pm! Not only was it there, it was there much earlier than I estimated. Very, very interesting! And this one does have sound!
For years, I’ve tried to get larger night animals, like raccoons and possums to at least check out the project (or some kind of food) at night, but with no success… So with the advice of my grandfather (who has had some success with night-time animals in the past) I put a small piece of bread out with a very little bit of butter on it, I set up the project with a little night-light bulb to illuminate the area around it, and I watched. I tried it for 2 days, and nothing happened. On the 3rd day, I set everything up just like normal and just left it alone.