One of the many joys that come from living in the country is the close contact you get to have with the surrounding wildlife.
And from time to time we get to 'share' the efforts of our labour with alot of them - birds eating seed and fruit, wallabies and hares eating grasses and vegetables, and these guys, flying foxes, eating fruit from the plum and peach trees.
As you can see, this guy got caught in the barb-wire fence right next to the orchard, which only goes to prove that unlike true bats, 'fruit bats' don't have radar / sonor to direct them away from such things.
We helped him out of his predicament, and he spent the rest of the day hanging in the tree recuperating.
Further information on these creatures can be found here at Wikipedia, here at Living Harbour and here at Flying Foxes in Australia.
And I still think they should be called possums with wings.
