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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: StinkyPete on November 09, 2014, 08:33:28 PM

Title: Unusual Visitor
Post by: StinkyPete on November 09, 2014, 08:33:28 PM

We found this chap in our front yard tonight, calling out to the girls.   We do see them from time to time.

Title: Re: Unusual Visitor
Post by: Kev Murphy on November 09, 2014, 11:19:20 PM

Got a local one comes by every few weeks, sits up the tree at my driveway, or on the fence next door, and I live in the main commercial business block in town.
(http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s277/cool_blue_ice_2002/cool_blue_ice_2002001/Dscf17992.jpg)

This is on the footpath outside my kitchen window.
(http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s277/cool_blue_ice_2002/cool_blue_ice_2002001/DSCF1566.jpg)
 

Title: Re: Unusual Visitor
Post by: HunterTodd on November 10, 2014, 01:26:17 PM

If you didn't know what sound the males make when they are looking for mates and you heard one on a dark night walking through the bush you would swear you are about to be attacked by a lion.
We had one in residence for a month and a half in a tree outside my daughters bedroom window one time.  The noise every night was that bad I sharpened the chainsaw ready to cut his house down.  Pickings must have been slim in that area because he up and left before I got around to it.

Title: Re: Unusual Visitor
Post by: StinkyPete on November 10, 2014, 01:36:22 PM

Possums are the other harmless looking creature that makes an horrendous sound when announcing it's presence.   :eek
Here it is....   Possum screech (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkncjNn-ygE#)


Here's the koala sound for anyone who hasn't heard it.
What sound does a koala make? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPdaU9A-RqU#)

Title: Re: Unusual Visitor
Post by: HunterTodd on November 10, 2014, 02:07:59 PM

Those bloody possums are not the benign cute little furry creatures they appear either.  My old Dad was feeding one apple of his verandah one day and one bit him on the finger. It had some sort of infection because his whole hand swelled up and looked like a football. Years later I had a mate over and we had a possum on the deck. I told him not to feed it and bugger me if it didn't bite him on the big toe and the same bloody thing happened his foot swelled up like a handball.

Title: Re: Unusual Visitor
Post by: Biggles on November 10, 2014, 02:14:12 PM

Starve the crows!  What do these animals think they are?  One wants to be a fire engine and the other thinks it's water buffalo.

Title: Re: Unusual Visitor
Post by: Brock on November 10, 2014, 02:55:23 PM

Havent you guys read the overseas forums about Oz.???

All the wild/insect life is out to kill you......

Title: Re: Unusual Visitor
Post by: saaz on November 10, 2014, 03:22:22 PM

I have a possum here Pete that you can take back to yours for company.

Title: Re: Unusual Visitor
Post by: ST2UP on November 10, 2014, 09:26:26 PM

I relocated a possum into the possum witness protection program a few months ago.....leather gloves, pillow slip and a nice drive in the country out to the TSR to his new home.......there a cranky little critter  :well