>>2181120Yes; game cams and other night time IR cameras are great fun for things like this. I hear him scuttling around sometimes when I'm out late at night, then I'll check it when he's gone. I've been able to watch him through a window before from ambient light, too. I'm pretty sure I could sit in one of the chairs a few feet away from where that picture was taken and he wouldn't notice if I sat down a half hour or hour before, kek.
I always wondered how people interacted with opossums until I accidentally walked out to him trying to eat out of a bird feeder and he just stood still, even more calm than the one in your webm. I probably blinded the poor thing for 10 minutes because of how bright my flashlight was. He came back though; he doesn't seem to mind it. He eats any fruit you put out. Apples, pears, even bananas. He licked some the peanut butter (which the squirrels later finished) and even ate some walnuts. Originally it was a birdfeeder using over-ripe fruit to distract them from my nearby plants, but I didn't see many birds. Squirrels would take the fruit (yes, complete apple halves) and lick up the peanut butter. Then I saw the possum that one night and he came by for fruit in the next few days. He comes by often; I just wish I knew if I were fucking his diet/health up or not by putting out all this fruit. He ate one egg, but that's it; he refuses to eat them for some reason. The one he did eat was out there for a while and started to dry out.
The fruit seems to keep him, the squirrels, and even some of the birds from eating my nearby fruit and tomatoes. It also keeps him in the area, which is nice because of the whole tick eating thing. We don't have many, but it's always nice to have possums around. I think we've had them in my yard for many years, but this is the first time I've ever seen one up close; they're very secretive and live in bushes and other plants that can conceal them as far as I can tell.
