Possum Sounds In Roof

People who share their homes with possums describe hearing them walking around the roof cavity.

Possum sounds in roof.

Noises in your roof you might be hearing some pretty heavy running kind of noises in your roof at the moment. The pests are usually silent when they are alone so hearing opossums means that multiple animals are nearby. 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. Brushtail possums are commonly seen in urban areas and heard scampering over the roof at night.

Opossum sounds at night since they are active after dark opossums are most likely to make sounds at night. People who share their homes with possums describe hearing them walking around the roof cavity. Possums will not usually run in the roof space. Clicking and choo choo sounds coming from roofs and attics often mean that mothers and their babies have made their dens there.

Emma s research heard residents speak about the thump thump thump of possums walking across the ceiling. The frequency of the noise varies either louder or softer depending on their mood. A possum in the roof. Others described being jolted awake at dawn to crashing and scraping sounds and a feeling that someone was in the house.

They also state that the possum will return just prior to dawn. The noises they make are a combination of hissing chattering scratching gnawing and squeaking. In fact our clients often compare a possum moving inside the roof to that of an elephant thumping around. Emma s research heard residents speak about the thump thump thump of possums walking across the ceiling.

It s a fair chance you re hearing possum noises in your roof. Our clients will tell us that they hear their resident possum thump its way through the roof to head outside usually just after dusk.