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An Opossum Adventure Going Climbing | Jan. 12, 2014 |
| Earlier this month, after a snowfall, a young opossum (probably a year old or younger) wandered into the backyard and dined on bird seed. |
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| The following day the possum returned, and at dusk he decided to have a climb in the rose of sharon. (Note the look of concentration.) |
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| All went okay until the young opossum decided to look down. (It's always a mistake looking down when climbing up.) |
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| And so the opossum went into a twirl. |
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| It took a short while for him to figure out what was happening. |
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| The opossum resolved the situation by making use of his prehensile tail to extract himself from the rose of sharon. |
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And so, for the first time in my life, I managed to photograph an opossum's prehensile tail in action.
Photo note: The photos were taken with the Pentax K20D, with the SMC-DA* 60-250mm lens. The first one dates from January 9, 2014, and the remainder are (at dusk) from January 10, 2014. |