Possums On Roof At Night

It will sleep during the day and then venture outside at night.

Possums on roof at night. Possums are generally regarded as pests when folks find them lurking in their yard or near their homes in the middle of the night. Our clients will tell us that they hear their resident possum thump its way through the roof to head outside usually just after dusk. In fact one study of possums in urban tasmania found that 87 of their visits to dens were associated with buildings mostly older houses while 45 of den visits were to roof cavities. Possums in roofs they may be one of australia s beloved native marsupials and pretty cute on top but possums can be trouble once they ve moved into your place and are keeping you awake at night.

If they re hungry or if they re running from predators they may be out during the daytime. If you catch a possum you must release it within 24 hours and it must be at night. At sunset release the possum no more than 50 m from where it was caught. New south wales victoria canberra tasmania the south east corner of south australia in central australia including southern northern territory and along the south west coast of western australia.

Possums are known to be nocturnal creatures so they come out at night you may find them during the day if they re forced to leave their shelter for a reason but typically you ll only see them out and about at nighttime. Not sure if you re talking about inside or outside your roof but inside your roof possums mostly run around at dawn dusk maybe a couple of other times during the night more on rainy nights if they don t want to go out when doing so they sound like an elephant herd of elephants. If they are getting into your roof sleeping on top of your roof under solar panels or in open gable areas give us a call and we can give you a quote to block off the areas and change the reason for the possums to regularly visit your house. Possums will only be on your roof regularly for three reasons they are living in your roof they are living on your roof or they are using your roof to get from a to b.

Get a live holding trap from a big box home improvement store or from an online retailer. The possum is a nocturnal animal. Live holding traps capture possums without hurting or killing them. Can you smell something unsavoury.

Remove the trap from the roof put it in an area of your house that is quiet and cool and cover it with an old towel or blanket to keep the light out. They are preferable to quick kill traps. Have those noises in roof spaces become loud screeches or perhaps even grunts growls and hisses. During the day make sure you block all access points to the roof or the possum will return.