not-so-wildlife

[erilyn]

We've got several resident possums here at the moment. Not sure if the two (mum and offspring) who were in the chinese tallow tree out the front this evening are also nesting in the gutter out the back (you can see the top of a slumbering grey body during the day). Though you can only see the mother in these, the juvenile had scooted further up the tree.




Mama Possum wasn't bothered by the flash or anything.


This is probably gonna end badly, with possums nesting inside the roof or something, but in the meantime, they're cute :)

Comments

[erilyn.livejournal.com]

And this isn't even the cutest variety of possum! Though they aren't as common in my backyard *g*.

[ninjetti75.livejournal.com]

TOTALLY cuter than the North American variety. Ours literally look like giant rats. Like, back in the late 80s there was a campy kids-friends-with-the-monsters Halloween/"horror" type film called "Monster Squad"... ..the opening flashback to Transylvania in a dungeon... ..had a "rat" non-chalantly crossing the floor... ..it was a possum. Bored out of its skull, heh.

[erilyn.livejournal.com]

Heee, I have a friend who is very into rats, so I've heard other stories of non-rats playing the role of the "creepy rat" in movies.