Saturday, December 27, 2008

Christmas Lunch with Sally's Son's Entire Family

This is a young Magpie chick who learnt to sing on Christmas Day - Beautiful Sounds





These are Possums (Brushtail Possums) they are Marsupials and rear their young in a pouch just like Kangaroos do. They have no relationship with American O'Possumms which to my knowledge are mammals, not Marsupials.

5 comments:

KimR. said...

Ron, Looks like you had lunch with an interesting group! ;-) Kim

Anonymous said...

These photos are great! I love the way you photograph nature. One question though, what kind of animal is Sally? They're awfully cute!

Anonymous said...

Very cute! I have never seen one of those - what is it?? Really nice captures!!

Anonymous said...

Just saw your posts on the village, guess I have never seen a opposum (sp?) close up - I always thought they were really ugly, but actually they are kinda cute....

Anonymous said...

Ron. You have a glitch in your education. Our opossums are marsupials.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opossum