Opossum in the Neighborhood

As I was driving past a neighbor's lawn I noticed some Canada Geese grazing in the lawn, but one of the objects didn't look right. After a quick look with the binoculars it was easy to see it was an opossum.



Having an opossum so close to nesting geese is not desirable for the geese since opossums will raid the geese nests for eggs.



While I was having a very blunt discussion with the opossum about leaving the neighborhood it suddenly resorted to a trick of "playing possum", in which it pretends to be dead. At this point I relocated the opossum out of the neighborhood.