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David Shilman

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Reply #60 on: September 14, 2008, 09:26:59 PM
Here's the article from yesterday's Globe.

http://tinyurl.com/5n2oay

The couple mentioned are the friends I referenced earlier in this thread.
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Reply #61 on: September 14, 2008, 09:39:00 PM
I look forward to someday seeing one. Preferably within photo distance...preferably not hiding in a backpack. Wouldnt that have been a heck of a shocker finding an Oppossum in your stroller? Thats abit too close.
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Reply #62 on: September 22, 2008, 08:39:30 PM
Hi Possum Lovers,

The other afternoon while off to one of my favourite birding sites I came upon a dead opossum.  I'm guessing the poor little guy was probably hit by a car or something and then moved to the side of the road and placed to rest on the edge of a lawn.  This was on a side street just east of the intersection of Brimley Road & Kingston Road in Scarborough.  Sadly my first sighting of one of these critters happens to be a dead one.

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Reply #63 on: September 23, 2008, 09:58:43 AM
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Hi Possum Lovers,

... on a side street just east of the intersection of Brimley Road & Kingston Road in Scarborough...


There aren't a whole lot of sightings that far east.  It must have passed my house on the way there. :-)  Just 8 kms away.
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Reply #64 on: September 23, 2008, 02:31:24 PM
Yap thay have bin seen at Cranbeery march and lind shouers in Whitby !!  :shock:  I do hope thay stay away from my
back yard !!!!  :P

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Reply #65 on: September 27, 2008, 10:04:39 PM
found one on the sied of the rood yesterday sept 26 08 at liynd shouers .... :(

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Reply #66 on: February 01, 2009, 05:50:39 PM
Its Feb. 1st. , I have an oppossum in my cabbagetown garden. I didnt realise we had them in Toronto. Do they not hibernate? It looks a bit frostbitten on the ears, maybe that is normal.
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Reply #67 on: February 01, 2009, 07:21:31 PM
So anyone got a recipe for 'possum pie?
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Reply #68 on: February 21, 2009, 10:24:35 PM
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Its Feb. 1st. , I have an oppossum in my cabbagetown garden. I didnt realise we had them in Toronto. Do they not hibernate? It looks a bit frostbitten on the ears, maybe that is normal.


Still around?
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Reply #69 on: March 23, 2009, 09:16:48 PM
For what it is worth (since this is an older thread), I had a possum up my tree a couple of nights ago.  I thought it was a small raccoon until I looked with a flashlight.  This is the first time I have seen a live one, I've seen one hit along the road a few years ago.  I live two blocks from a heavily wooded area in Levi Creek (Derry/Mississauga Road).
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Reply #70 on: April 26, 2009, 01:49:32 PM
Saw one in front of a buddys house in Mississauga last summer after his cat warned us about it, even the cat was afraid to go near it.  Was quite a site at 3am.
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Reply #71 on: June 06, 2010, 11:59:18 PM
I saw an opossum crossing Fuller avenue near Marion street while riding my bike... It was about midnight... may 20th

amazing... tail looked like a parsnip...
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Reply #72 on: July 11, 2010, 10:11:54 PM
Gardeners in the Mt Pleasant Cemetery report that they saw an opossum about a week ago - they didn't know what it was at first....
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Reply #73 on: February 18, 2011, 02:26:40 PM
I haven't seen may posts regarding Opossums on this site lately however, I have had one visit my house twice in the past week.  Given it was during the day light (mid-afternnoon) and extremely cold, I was quite surprised.    Living in north Whitby and near a creek and forest even my neighbours haven't seen one in the past.  Guess they are on the move.
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Reply #74 on: February 18, 2011, 04:35:33 PM
My sister just told me that she trapped one in a "live" cage , that was in her barn .. last weekend.  She lives in Stouffvillle. They took it further North and released it.  So they are around !!
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