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

[vaudevilles.livejournal.com]

The kiwi ones are Australian in origin... they are slowly being eradicated here as they've decimated the native bird population and have the horrible habit of passing on TB to various other animals. My parents and their neighbours spent a year with traps up their garden and got about six I think, which the local council removed humanely for them.

So now we have possum scarves and gloves - possum/merino wool mix *happy sigh* I also have a fabulously ugly hat with ear flaps that has possum fur on the inside and it is my absolutely favourite winter wear. There's even a shop in Napier called "PossumWorld"!

[erilyn.livejournal.com]

I wish we could eradicate and farm some of our many introduced pests too.