Friday 3 January 2014

Pair o' Possums

It's hot. It's dry. And no matter how many times I refresh the Bureau of Meteorology Cairns weather radar page, there are still no rain-filled clouds in the immediate vicinity.

I'm amazed that the possums can sleep cwched together in the macadamia tree, but they do. They manage to keep going even when the Lewin's honeyeaters and the white-browed scrubwrens yell at them. They stir slightly when I take a photograph, but that's it.

At night, they're refreshed enough to run full pelt across the roof. It might be because the corrugated iron is hot on their feet, but I suspect it's sheer devilment. One possum galloping on a metal roof sounds like a horse. Two of them sounds like the Melbourne Cup.

This possum has two tails

This possum has no tail


Apologies for the graininess of the photos. I didn't want to use flash and it's quite dark under the canopy of the macadamia tree.