This morning we found a pile of feathers near the dam and 2 baby plovers, no more than a day old in the middle of the road nearby. We would normally leave baby birds where they are for the parents to look after but with the obvious death of their mother these two were unlikely to survive, especially as the temperatures were over 40 degrees all week. We named them Salt and Pepper and they are thriving on a diet of live termites, meal worms, crickets and anything else we can catch. They have doubled in weight in one week. 

Timmy came to us as an adult in January 2007 and was released in February 2007. We didnt see him much for a few months until one night he turned up at the back door in very poor condition with scratches all over him and some bad cuts on his face. He had obviously been fighting with another possum. We decided it was best not to take him back into care but to feed him up as much as we could. He came back every night until he was better and then would disappear for several weeks and return whenever he needed extra food. Recently he has been banging on the back door most nights. He comes in for some food and when he is finished he hops down and goes to the door to be let out.