Toowong possum

I was walking home from Toowong yesterday when I spotted a possum on the same fence on which I photographed a Kookaburra sitting last year. It was only around 4:30pm, so I don't know what the possum was doing up so early... I'm not sure if it knew what it was doing either. I'd just bought a couple of ripe pears so I offered one to the possum, but after taking a sniff it turned up its nose. It appeared to be blind in one eye, possibly the result of an old injury (a fight with another possum, a stick, a bird attack?) with its good eye partially covered by a nictitating membrance. Nevertheless it peered at me in that slow-witted, doddering manner those ring-tail possums all seem to exhibit, before ambling off to do whatever it had risen so early for... I still can't believe it turned up its nose at a ripe pear!