We had a visitor at the bird feeders on Friday which was definitely not of the bird or squirrel variety.
Weekend Wildlife: Not a Bird
We had a visitor at the bird feeders on Friday which was definitely not of the bird or squirrel variety.
Travels with Choppy 
Hey is it a rare Winter Rat? 😀
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I’m pretty glad the possum is glad no one decided to call it a Winter Rat – though it would be an apt name.
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haha Oh I see! Well, clearly I’ve no idea what a possum looks like, tho it does seem rather small. – Either that or I am just used to the massive rats I’ve seen occasionally in my garden! 😀
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This one was about typical, maybe a little small – you do see some which are maybe twice that size sometimes, but definitely this is close to normal.
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I never knew! 🙂
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What is that? Groundhog?
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It’s a possum – we have a lot of them around us.
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We get bunches too, and raccoons. The possum can be good to have around actually, but the raccoons are a dang nuisance. 😏
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I don’t mind either of them – though our raccoons will sometimes wander off with a bird feeder. Usually we find them, but one appears to be permanently missing.
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In the winter they can be really invasive. We’ve had them under our house and even had one that worked his way into duct work, looking at us from just under the floor vent. I can do without them. 😃
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I’m glad ours have remained outside!
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Yeah. That is for the best. 😃😃
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Possums definitely don’t have wings or bushy tails. They are good Moms…..walk with their babies clinging to them….and FYI: they have 50 teeth!
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I always enjoy seeing them. They aren’t the prettiest creatures around, but they just seem like happy little guys (until Choppy scares them and they play dead).
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Cute, I think. Unless i’;s a rat, the Hubby would be getting the rifle out!
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Nope, just a possum, hanging out and doing his thing (which is eating whatever the birds leave behind).
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Definitely cute then. 🙂
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Well at least it’s clearing up the birdseed that falls to the ground, wish I had one!
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We have lots of them – I could export you one (or ten)!
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That is an opossum. We have them here too. You almost never see them so that’s pretty awesome that you got pictures!
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It’s definitely a possum. We’re sort of overrun with the things. I don’t mind, though Choppy is not a fan. They really do play possum – many of them have bewildered Choppy over the years with this move.
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Cute 🙂 At least he found some food to eat.
I wonder if Choppy and Schooner noticed him.
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Not this time – Choppy does enjoy chasing them when she sees them, at which point they play dead and bewilder her.
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Any idea what it was?
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Yup – it’s a possum. We also get raccoons at the feeders (not this time of year) and sometimes a groundhog.
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It’s a meeting place!
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Woo-hoo-a Wisconsin wombat! 😂
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I like that! I should start referring to them that way.
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I read somewhere that they eat ticks, which is a good thing in my book. I just wonder how they figured that out??
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I’ve heard about the ‘tick thing’ too. Maybe they smell them?
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Turkeys and guinea hens eat ticks, too, but I assume by sight. We need FLOCKS around here. 😉
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We have the flocks, and I’m not sure it’s making much of a difference (Paul nearly hit a turkey the other night on the way home – it came out of nowhere and I’m pretty sure it’s less a few tail feathers based on how close we got to him).
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Yikes! I always say, if I roadkilled one, I’d bring it home for dinner. 😉
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Ha! That was my first comment after this happened – that at least if we hit him, we would have had something for supper.
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GMTA!
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Definitely!
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That is an excellent question – I’m not sure I would want to be the researcher who did figure it out, no matter how they went about that discovery (because I’m guessing it involved looking through the content of stool samples, which I’m not sure is worse or better than the other thought it my mind for doing this, which involves tick-handling).
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😀
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Reblogged this on Die Erste Eslarner Zeitung – Aus und über Eslarn, sowie die bayerisch-tschechische Region!.
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Thank you for the reblog!
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They are cute, but can also be mean. Glad they choose to play dead when Choppy chases them. Anything that eats ticks is good in my book.
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I have to admit, I think it’s pretty cool when they play dead – usually, they do it by our bird feeders, which means we can watch from inside as they slowly come back to life. I wish it was lighter out there, because it would make a great video for the blog.
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It would make a great video. I’ve never seen them play dead.
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Hopefully, I can get a video when it’s light out sometime (all previous attempts have been thwarted by the nocturnal nature of the possums).
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Wow
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It’s a zoo back there.
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wonderful..
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