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. I didn’t watch the project as it was going on, with a kind of “the watched pot never boils” theory but I would periodically check out the window to see if anything had changed. From the window, it was hard to make the project itself out clearly, but you can see a general shape that’s illuminated. The shape looked the same at 2, 3:30, 4, etc… At 5:30am I went out to the kitchen thinking I should make something to eat, when I looked out the window again. “Huh… well, it’s… a blob… but it’s a… different-looking blob!” I said, looking at the project. “But it’s not possible that something else came!” Cats have come to the project before during the night, but they always “leave the scene” with somewhat of a mess around the area the project sits, something is usually laying next to it, not eaten or looked at, so that’s a tell-tale sign that a cat has passed by. This time, however, there were no discernible leavings anywhere near the “blob” — “But that’s not possible…! Nothing could’ve possibly eaten everything there! It must have been the wind, or, something!” I said again. I had a DVR rolling on the project the whole night in case something was to come by, so I ran to the recorder that was rolling and cued back the last 20 minutes of footage. To my absolute surprise, a possum was standing at the project, eating the bread off of it! “Aaah!!” I couldn’t believe that something like that had come to the project! This was the first time I’d actually seen a possum anywhere in the area! I still have no idea where it came from - I’m still trying to figure that out - but it’s interesting that it came here! NOTE!: THERE IS NO SOUND ON THIS FILE - the microphone was about 30 feet away from the project, so all you’d hear is noise!

 

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