While many consider them pests, Bronwen Scott has an affinity with the coppery brushtail possum that’s taken up lodgings in her roof
has an affinity with the coppery brushtail that’s taken up lodgings in her roof – and she’s not alonet last light, a silhouette detaches itself from the shadows on the roof. It is round and fuzzy, with a tail curled into a comma at the tip. It clambers on to the power line and trundles along until it reaches the trees. Parking its fluffy backside on a branch, it starts on the ripening fruit that will never make it to my kitchen.
At one point, two adult and two young possums lived in these cosy lodgings. Only pinpricks of light made it past them. “In residential areas, possums live where they can,” Jackson says. “Nest boxes are appreciated. They need to be high enough off the ground and to have the right-sized entrances to avoid predation.
“When I was a kid, the powerful owl was an almost mythical bird of wet gullies,” Saddler says. “Now it’s out and about in the suburbs of Australia’s largest cities.”
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