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Sighting 4385670

Trichosurus vulpecula

1 Common Brushtail Possum at Hughes, ACT

Trichosurus vulpecula at Hughes, ACT - 14 Jun 2021 08:04 AM
Trichosurus vulpecula at Hughes, ACT - 14 Jun 2021 08:04 AM
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Trichosurus vulpecula 5 Jul 2021 MichaelMulvaney
Trichosurus vulpecula 5 Jul 2021 JonSteinbeck

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One morning, almost two hours after sunrise, the native birds visiting our garden were making a massive din; squawking and calling. There were Sulphur-crested Cockatoos, Noisy Miners and probably some others as well. I assumed the it was someone’s cat but it was a Common Brushtail Possum standing up in our back garden. It stayed standing on its haunches for a while. Its focus was fixed across the garden in the direction of a large iron bark. Then, it suddenly darted across, to where it was looking, causing the birds to make even more noise. The possum ran about two meters up the iron bark before effortlessly jumping onto the top of the wooden slat fence between us and our neighbour. The possum ran along the top of that narrow fence towards the rear of the garden, where I lost sight of it behind the garden shed. The cockatoos perched on the power line continued to observe it for a few seconds more, calling loudly among themselves while looking downwards to where the possum must have been dashing.

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