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Last update 11th July 2016
Spotlighting and listening, is the only way to find Owls and Possums. I spotlight with a 100w sealed beam, powered by a lead acid battery, have a place in the 4X4 to recharge it. This will give me about 2.5hrs light for walking about looking for what ever I can find in the bush. You have to look in many different types of forest from alpine to the lowlands to get this range of Possums.
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(Trichosurnus vulpecula) |
(Petauroides volans) |
(Gymnobelideus leadbeateri)
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(Pseudocheirus peregrinus) |
| This mum and baby lived in a tree out front of my house, I put a nest box up some 36 years ago and ever since, we have had some one living in it. We have to live with them and if we provide a place for them to live in, then they will not move into the roof of our house. | Never a sound, but their eye shine in the spotlight beam gives them away.
I love watching them glide with their long tail streaming behind them. | Very hard to find.
It has taken me many years to get any photos. A very active possum, I have seen one jump from a tree (about 10 meters up) to the ground to escape a Southern Boobook. | Common Ringtail they love rose-buds
Powerful Owl main food and requires up to 300 each year. |
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| Eastern Pygmy Possum.
(Cercartetus nanus) This Pygmy Possum was on the ground trying to run across a track to a Narrow-leaved Peppermint (Eucalypts radiata) that was in flower late October 1988. |
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