Featured Letter
WILDLIFE HERO My nephew, Old Growth Steve as he likes to be called, is a conventional farmer in the Hunter Valley of New South Wales, who has now taken an interest in his neighbours – the local wildlife.
In fact, he allowed a mother possum and its young to make a home in his ceiling. One day, the mother possum vanished and eventually the young one climbed down searching for her.
And what it found was Old Growth Steve, whom it immediately adopted. To show who was boss, the possum climbed up onto Steve’s head.
Steve fed it something “milky” (I am not sure what) and the next day took it to a wildlife refuge. He has had a lot of encounters with the “locals” and finds that, in general, they are very friendly. Andrew Toth, Waterloo, NSW