Common Grey Brushtail Possum
Have you ever been possum shooting? We’ve just been shooting on the weekend. Of course, we use a digital camera 😉
We went out while it was still daylight. Driving a little way out of town, into the bush, we scouted for good areas to “spot” later; places near water, well treed, established trees with hollows, and bird’s nests. On the GPS we marked the likeliest looking trees to come back to when we began looking in earnest.
After the sun set, we turned around and switched the car’s high beam lights on to illuminate the surrounding trees. The hunt began! We also shone spotlights out of the car’s windows and drove very slowly, scanning the trees for eyes peeping back at us.
Boobook Owl
We uncovered many different types of wildlife; frogs, owls, nightjars, possums, and normal-old-day-time birds roosting. There were no gliders about, but we did encounter a snake!
Anonymous snake! (anyone know his name?)
Miss 7 spied the first “good” (photographable) possum, and she was very excited! We had sighted two before then, but they scurried away before we were able to shoot them. Our father first spotted the owl and the nightjar, as well as the frogs.
Tawny Frogmouth with snack
Spotlighting makes for thrilling nighttime adventure!
Irish Chicklette 