My photo series on Junior Miss, our resident brushtail possum, was short-lived because I am a slack wildlife correspondent and because shortly after starting the series, she disappeared. My True Love told me that the possum jaw bone we found at the nearby park around the time she disappeared was purely a coincidence. Hmmm.

Well, I don’t need to tell you that the world is going to hell. And as further proof of that, the H5 bird flu has finally arrived on Australia’s shores with distressing consequences. So does that mean I should never again post a bird photo in case all our birds die? Hell, no! You can be sure I will be taking as many photos of live birds as possible. However, few birds have flown past my lens, so instead here are some photos of our new resident possum, Bubs. Bubs is Junior Miss’s little sister. She is very sassy.

Bubs in the dog bath that is hanging up in the shed.

Bubs used to do a lot of very loud hissing which she used to great effect to evict her sister from the shed. Her hisses have since mellowed with occasional outbursts of mild chagrin. The exasperation is due to her becoming a mummy and needing to keep Bubbles in line. Bubbles is female and becoming more of a pouchful.

I suspect that it is not good for Bubbles to become habituated to humans. Time will tell.

My TL checks on them every day. We get worried when they choose some other motel and it is always a relief when they show up again after a couple of days. Anyway, I hope I haven’t jinxed them.

Should I mention that I have a photo of the jaw bone? That’s a photo for another day.

Take care, everyone, and stay well.

Kind Regards.
Tracy.

22 thoughts on “Bubs and Bubbles”

  7. Sweet photos. Unfortunately at our place, possums have usurped the hollow in which two years ago the pair of gang-gangs raised a chick. So an endangered species has lost out yet again to a species that has adapted successfully to suburban life.

    Diana

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