Snapped pics and rolled video of a native Greater Glider,they have the membrane between their front and rear feet to glide from tree to tree with. First one I have ever seen in daylight..ever,so I am feeling good!
I was shooting through fog @ 56 yards under very overcast sky and that pissed me right off.

I have those little fella's on my place. Even built a nest box for them.

The GG`s or the Sugar Gliders?

Awesome! Thought the tree trunk looks like you missed him a few times...

A few have come up with the same mate lol.
They chew into the bark to release the sap....yum!

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Originally posted by gryphon1:
The GG`s or the Sugar Gliders?

Little Sugar Gliders I think. I had one that I would watch in the afternoon go from tree to tree until he was at the top of my place then he would cross the road.

Gorgeous!

Remember with family at Tangalooma on Morton Island you had to dodge the squirrel gliders going from tree to tree across the footpaths.

Yes they are beautiful creatures,those that you were dodging were probably Sugar Gliders perhaps.

That guy in your photo looks incredibly like a juvenile brush tail.

"twice as long tail"

But it does eh what.

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Originally posted by shankspony:
That guy in your photo looks incredibly like a juvenile brush tail.

Sending you a video cobber.

Very cool! Yep that tail is special.

Maybe it is a Brushy shanks with an ultra long tail.

On your brush tails over there, do you find many with golden fur on their tails?

Its quite common here to find an inch or two at the tip is gold coloured, and occaisionly we will get the whole tail gold colour.

No i haven't seen one that I can remember mate. I have a tanned skin here from Tassy,a mate shot many many 1000`s for furs and kept four skins for tanning that were unique in that he had never seen those four diff colours prev. He presented me with a "dark" one. He also had a 'blonde' one that was golden.
Possums here are very rare and I don`t know why,I have only seen a few over the last six years.

Many possums in NZ spend most of their waking hours on the ground eating clover. There are no natural predators for them here so they are safe on the ground - no foxes or dingoes to eat them.

Yeah we just dont have the ground based predators.

Id shoot at least half my possums on the ground each night. They are a pain in the arse when on the ground as generally your shooting distance is longer and tend to have to go for chest shoots.

Shanks I reckon I have ID the beast.
I have studied my vids and have come to the conclusion that it is a Mountain Brushtail Possum. The absence of the hairy ears worried me but I put it down to they were slick from the rain. That other video I sent you is a genuine one though.

There is a heap to choose from ha ha.

https://www.nespthreatenedspec...-possums-and-gliders

Jeepers. Does that mean I was right?

Sort of but not quite,they are two different possums.

Awesome photos Gryph!

It's great to see those little fellas out in the daytime, we have a few Sugar gliders around the house in Brisbane - but due to this fucking lockdown I'll be stuck in NZ until end of Sept again.

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Originally posted by shankspony:
Awesome! Thought the tree trunk looks like you missed him a few times...

Hahahaha!!

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Originally posted by HendrikNZ:

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Originally posted by shankspony:
Awesome! Thought the tree trunk looks like you missed him a few times...

Hahahaha!!

I must have used your .470 Nitro H!

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Originally posted by gryphon1:
Yes they are beautiful creatures,those that you were dodging were probably Sugar Gliders perhaps.

Yes you are correct. I looked it up, not sure why I never have before!

Rocdoc,I will guess that 95% of Aussies have never seen a sugar glider,you have been fortunate.

Its not hard to miss ID as my own posts show.

We have the same thing or something like that in the USA. I have seen them in the Catskill mountains in New York state, We call them flying squirrels. First time I saw them was at night hunting racoons. Never saw one during daylight. Apparently they climb a tree and SAIL DOWN to another tree enabled by the flap of hide between the front and rear legs.

Hip