Notes from Noah’s Deck is a little thing I do on Facebook chronicling our wildlife activity on our deck in the far corner of the back yard. I named it Noah’s Deck because everything that is out there seems to come in pairs. This deck is completely inconvenient to the house as far as using it to entertain. I believe it was built to make the best of an unfortunate terrain. But, in any event, it makes a wonderful den for the local wildlife — mainly foxes and possum and a couple of stray cats.
When we moved here we were told by the neighbor that we had foxes but we didn’t see them until about six years ago when we got Trixie. Caroline and I were outside with the pup when we sensed something watching us, we turned and there was a fox, on it’s little butt, with it’s ears all pricked, just watching us back. I shooed it away — it didn’t mind me — and it finally just got up and left. After that we got the cameras.
My husband likes to watch birds and now the wildlife so we put out cameras so we can see what goes on in the night on the deck. The first morning after we put up the first camera we were thrilled to see the capture of our outdoor activity. There were in fact foxes and they are great fun to watch. The possum sightings are deceptive - they look small but in reality they are bigger than Trixie as I have seen them in person traipsing through the back yard. It is now our morning routine to get up and watch the clips of the animals over our breakfast.
I can most assuredly say there will be babies in the spring. I will just leave it at that.
So, here is a pic from last night. The cold snap we are having has frozen over the water dish and the possum sort of did an ice skating routine — don’t think they are ready for the Olympics yet though.
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Watching the night time visitors over breakfast must be so interesting. Who knows what could show up?
Yes, at least we haven’t had any strange two legged visitors! That would scare me more than our four legged variety.
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