Quote: Nil Putters @ May 10 2009, 2:02 PM BSTIt's probably a ghosty-wobble waiting to put the willies up you.
It did sound very much like the noise in the attic at the beginning of The Exorcist... 
Scratchings... Page 2
Ooooh, it's gonna get you... Mwahahaha
Well its started up again. Sounds like they're shifting a sodding piano up there. I'm going up for another look.
Nice knowing you. 
Well they've been plopping hither and thither and eating the poison ... Soon my evil work will be complete.
But then you'll have a load of dead bodies up there. Stinky, rotting dead bodies...
Is it woodlice with doc martens?
Wasps, birds or bats spring to mind - rodents unlikely.
Birds will be out in the day, coming back late at night, bats in during the day. Don't poison, eh? Celebrate the fact that nature has decided to share its loveliness with you. Think of it as low-maintenance low-profile pets.
Quote: zooo @ May 10 2009, 10:17 PM BSTBut then you'll have a load of dead bodies up there. Stinky, rotting dead bodies...
Hmm thanks. But they will only be small dead bodies and hopefully not many of them yet... I just won't go into the loft ever again. Problem solved.
Quote: SlagA @ May 10 2009, 10:28 PM BSTIs it woodlice with doc martens?
Wasps, birds or bats spring to mind - rodents unlikely.
Birds will be out in the day, coming back late at night, bats in during the day. Don't poison, eh? Celebrate the fact that nature has decided to share its loveliness with you. Think of it as low-maintenance low-profile pets.
Its definitely rodents. I lifted the loft insulation that's just lying ontop of the ceiling plaster board and some of the delicious food I'd laid out had been dragged off under there, and a scattering of poo. The poo was smaller than that done by a hamster so is not rat, must be mouse. Not bat or bird either. Or squirrel or llama.
As for nature, raw in tooth and claw.... well, everything in its place I think - i.e. outside, thanks. I do save mice when the cat gets a bit hunter-gatherer, but that's rare.
Hopefully they'll start keeling over around about now... I need to be up early for my exam - if they start scrabbling about again I'll have to use ear plugs to sleep and I don't want to miss my alarm clock..
I had squirrels in mine. I don't look upon them as cute and cuddly any more!
This site may help:
My neighbour had the same noises but only from the bathroom ceiling. Thank f**k she didn't notice the drill bit poking through or she'd have sussed me.
Quote: Maurice Minor @ May 10 2009, 10:49 PM BSTIts definitely rodents.
Rodents include:
mice, rats, squirrels, chipmunks, gophers, porcupines, beavers, hamsters, gerbils, guinea pigs, degus, chinchillas, prairie dogs, and groundhogs
But not hares or rabbits. 
All quiet today. Its difficult to tell as its windy and there are a lot of trees where I live, but any rustling noises are *different* noises and appear to be outside. So they may have passed over. Its strong stuff in those pellets.
You should be noticing the smell any day now.