@camthelegend has this on film, he might be persuaded to share it.
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This video should help clear that up
https://1drv.ms/v/s!Aj4ApxVvxSui8grIPjFPm4i2_pzR?e=DvtYxV
Cheers
Cam
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Ha ha nice footage, you nuking the area?
Yeah, we get 1 new one every week or 2. They keep coming! We’ve on an avocado orchard, so plenty of trees to hide in and food to eat. I find shooting more effective than trapping or baiting.
That is quite incredible footage, all is revealed! Thanks for sharing. What did you use to record it with? Awesome quality! Cheers Cam
shame it wasn’t an AT220 eh
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Thanks for the video Cam … was it trying to get the first one out of the trap?
Great footage and info - cheers for that.
Bascally just fighting the other male. He chewed the upper legs of the trapped possum and I guess just asserting his dominance (over a dead male possum in his territory!)
Thanks Cam. As a matter of interest were you doing some research on which traps and/or lures were most popular? I do similar things, but am suffering from a severe lack of possums here since the last OSPRI project about 18 months ago! cheers
I like to monitor the behaviour of predators around traps with different baits. I’m periodically predator free here, but they keep coming in from the neighbouring properties. There is less motivation to bait traps when you don’t see anything for weeks and then when you do, you wish you have fresh lure int he traps! I need to help trap neighbouring properties when I get more time as there is limited interest from most people as long as numbers are low.
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Yep, they like to cuddle, one of my Trapinators a few weeks ago 
cheers Lawrence
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What camera is that Cam?
Looks great.
cheers
Lawrence
Uploading: FB039F94-A111-4810-9C9E-DA09894446A6.jpeg… this is rat damage that I found down in a waterway
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Yep, same as Cam, but I’ve got it on SD card in burst shot mode. Got one in a flipping timmy the other night & it’s mother came back 5 times to try to drag it out. Caught mom 2 nights later complete with joey in pouch.
Think I’ve mentioned this before but maybe not on this forum. My improved peanut butter recipe. Get a standard 330g jar of smooth peanut butter & stir in 15 crushed chewable vitamin C tablets. It lasts twice a long in our rather damp environment & the possums, rats, mice & hedgehogs love it (even the chaffinches sneak into my Doc200 traps to eat it without tripping the trap).
Cheers,
Ron
They’re out of season now, but I’ve found that possums are very fond of feijoas. I keep a good supply in the fridge. Once the fruiting stops, put relatively small, under-ripe feijoas in your traps/cages because they’re easier to skewer than a ripe one. The possums are still in feijoa mode, so the odds of getting them are high. I’ve even trapped a few rabbits in Timms baited with feijoas, so feijoas might be a good way of catching them in cages, if you have too many of them. I’d use them all year if I could get the damn things to freeze properly, but they turn to mush.
Using gloves, collect the fur. Stoats and weasels often line their dens with possum fur. Rats are also fond of it, and clumps of fresh wool are also good at attracting nest/den builders. Putting a real or fake egg on top of a pile of fur or wool is a good addition.
Hi Lawrence
I think that was recorded on a Jaycar 1080p camera. They’re a decent camera for the price and local. I have a bunch of Victure cameras too, I like that the Jaycar camera uses 940nm LEDs which isn’t so distracting to the larger predators. The 850nm LEDs can make cats and possums a little nervous.
Cam
…agree it’s probably another possum, sometimes hawks will have a go, but they will try to take meat off. we sometimes will leave a possum in a trap if trying to locate a feral cat, they will break the rib cage, eat the organs and leave the rest if they’re not hungry.
Wouldn’t have believed it -