Recently landed: Among these trees
The second step of soft release, in which we open the enclosure, is just as important as the first, where, with a band of volunteers, the possums are introduced to local browse and have the chance to become acclimatised to their new environment. We recently opened the hatch, by unscrewing the plastic grill on the inside, and the screw-top lid on the outside of the modified down pipe that serves as their exit tunnel. Once open, we threaded the rope that heads to their original nesting box in the red box gum through the pipe.
Continuing reading on Marginalia.
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4th of October, 2023
Dorothy Thornhill, Tree portrait, 1947, oil on canvas, in the collection of National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, © The Estate of Dorothy Thornhill
