Jack:
>I apologize for my earlier post on this subject. Thirteen hours of hard birding had shattered my otherwise fairly solid geographical grasp. It was quite obvious after a re-read that the reference was to Vancouver, WA...not Vancouver, BC. All flames acknowledged but otherwise unanswered. Kelly, I hope you can use the info re. the Fraser Delta possums somehow.
>

(Jack, ya gotta learn how to insert newline or carriage returns in your
posts...)

But only one possum record in Vancouver, WA? That blows MY mind
as in Portland, possums are as common as mosquitos at Malheur in
June.

Once when I was, oh, late Junior or early Senior High School, they'd
gotten so pestilentially thick in outlying Clackamas County, where
I lived, that a pest control official was quoted in the Oregonian
suggesting (with a hint of humor) that people not swerve to miss
them on highways, but to take careful aim instead.

I see them several times a year at night, within a couple block
radius of my house. Yes, I do have garbage service...


- Don Baccus, Portland OR <donb at rational.com>