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Wildlife Reports => Southern Ontario Wildlife => Topic started by: Bird Brain on May 30, 2009, 05:34:53 PM

Title: Huge Opposum at Lake Aquitaine
Post by: Bird Brain on May 30, 2009, 05:34:53 PM
Hi everybody.  What is in the water at Lake Aquitaine?!  Yesterday I saw a Huge Groundhog here and today saw a Huge Opposum around 4:45pm at East end of the lake.  I thought they are nocturnal creatures? He/she walked across the main trail right in front of my mom & I, looked at us and calmly kept going.  Bright sunshine at the time!  

Jo-Anne  

Lake Aquitaine:  SE corner of Glen Erin Dr./Aquitaine Ave., behind the community centre.
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Post by: Anonymous on May 30, 2009, 10:16:04 PM
There must be something in the water at Lake Aquitaine making everything there huge?? Either that or they put in a nuke plant without us knowing.. :lol:

At this time of year, not everything is nocturnal as they have young to feed.  As such you'll see things in daylight that often don't come out until darkness falls.
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Post by: Bird Brain on May 30, 2009, 11:25:56 PM
Quote from: "Attila"
There must be something in the water at Lake Aquitaine making everything there huge?? Either that or they put in a nuke plant without us knowing.. :lol:
Might explain why I've been glowing in the dark lately!  :lol: ;)  

The largest Groundhog I've ever seen in my life was actually at High Park last Summer in the Wallaby pen.  Not sure if he/she is still there or not but it was having a great time eating all the food and drinking out of the big water tub.  People were asking "Is that the Wallaby?".  Ha Ha!

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As such you'll see things in daylight that often don't come out until darkness falls.

Kinda like Bram Stoker's Dracula?   :twisted:  (Sorry, Attila ... couldn't resist!)

Jo-Anne  :)
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Post by: Bird Brain on May 31, 2009, 08:46:40 PM
Quote from: "Attila"
At this time of year, not everything is nocturnal as they have young to feed.
Attila ... this month has been wonderful for baby animal sightings:  birds, deer, groundhogs, squirrels, etc.  :)