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When I was leaving for work this morning, I noticed our regular Swamp Wallaby in the front yard (who had clearly noticed me too).

She has a joey in her pouch who's clearly getting fairly large.

#AustralianWildlife #WildOz #marsupial #macropod #SwampWallaby
A mother Swamp Wallaby with her ears back but alert, and mouth open mid-chew. A joey has its head and paws hanging out of her pouch. Both mother and joey are looking towards the camera. Her fir is a russet colour on top, with visible black underneath. She has black ears, tipped with grey, a grey face, orange cheeks and white around her nose. The joey is similarly coloured, with darker patches around the eyes like it has gotten in to Mum's mascara.
A mother Swamp Wallaby with her ears alert, and mouth open mid-chew. A joey has its head and paws hanging out of her pouch. Both mother and joey are looking towards the camera. Her fir is a russet colour on top, with visible black underneath. She has black ears, tipped with grey, a grey face, orange cheeks and white around her nose. The joey is similarly coloured, with darker patches around the eyes like it has gotten in to Mum's mascara.
#wildoz #australianwildlife #marsupial #swampwallaby #macropod

My morning was improved one-hundred-fold by the discovery of this tiny Eastern Dwarf Treefrog on a citrus fruit.

It was no bigger than a beetle, and almost the same colour as the unripe fruit.

#AustralianWildlife #WildOz #frog #EasternDwarfTreefrog
A tiny green frog with black stripe through its eye and around the nose, huddled on a green citrus fruit. It is almost the same colour as the fruit and is presumably hoping not to be noticed.
A crop of the previous image to better show the tiny frog. It is green on top, with a black stripe running along its side, through the eye and down to the nose. The legs are tucked up under it, but some of the gold colouring on the legs is visible.
#wildoz #australianwildlife #frog #easterndwarftreefrog

Excuse the bad quality (digital zoom on a phone), but our backyard wallaby has a Joey!
#AustralianWildlife #WildOz #SwampWallaby #joey
A mother swamp wallaby standing upright with the head and front paws of her Joey sticking out of the pouch. .
#wildoz #australianwildlife #swampwallaby #joey

"Squeaky" the King Parrot, in a more natural setting than on my veranda eating bird-seed.

#AustralianWildlife #WildOz #AustralianKingParrot #bird
A male Australian King Parrot perched in a tree. He is framed between the branch he is perched on, and another higher branch behind him. He's a Red parrot, with green wings and tail.
#wildoz #bird #australianwildlife #australiankingparrot

Today's campus birds started with a small group of three Bush Stone-curlews this morning, and then a family of ducks, some swamphen chicks and a Noisy Miner this afternoon.

#Bird #UQ #AustralianWildlife #WildOz #BushStoneCurlew #NoisyMiner #AustralasianSwamphen #AustralianWoodDuck
A Noisy Miner (a grey honeyeater bird) perched on the branch of a banksia bush. Two banksia cones can be seen behind it. Its body is turned away from the camera, but its head is turned back around to look at the camera. The background is green and out-of-focus.
A family of wood ducks on a concrete path. The father is at the rear, keeping watch in that direction, the mother on the right front, watching me, and four ducklings are huddled together in the middle having a snooze.
A tiny black fluffy chick with enormous feet, stands on a lawn. It is the chick of an AustralasianSwamphen.
Three Bush Stone-Curlews in the morning sun in a garden under some large fig trees. One (left) is standing on its tall legs, while the other two are resting on the ground amongst the leaves.
#wildoz #bird #australianwildlife #uq #BushStoneCurlew #NoisyMiner #australasianswamphen #australianwoodduck

Our swamp wallaby is back this morning, wondering what happened to all the tasty long grass that was there the day before (it was mowed yesterday).

#AustralianWildlife #WildOz #SwampWallaby #Marsupial #macropod
The same Swamp Wallaby, now turned to the left, and looking pensive, but alert (ears up). She is shaped like a long furry pear with a head, and a longish tail.
A relatively small macropod (kangaroo/wallaby, in this case, a Swamp Wallaby), standing in front of a Coffee plant, looking back over its shoulder towards the house (not pictured, because I'm standing in it).
#wildoz #australianwildlife #marsupial #swampwallaby #macropod

The floof balls popped up again today. But this time super quiet, just sneaking onto the balcony and softly chirping out hello. They left just before the sun popped out.

I already had my airport bag packed with cameras right next to the arm chair, so had a few cameras to choose from this morning.

#WildOz #UrbanBirds #CityBirds #Cockatoo #Photography #Lumix
200mm F2.8 on the G9II
50mm F1.8 on the S5II
50mm F1.8 on the S5II
200mm F2.8 on the G9II
#photography #wildoz #lumix #urbanbirds #citybirds #cockatoo

For those who are interested, these were taken on a LUMIX S9 with the 18mm F1.8 lens. Shot at F2, and I've lifted the shadow detail from the original exposure. As is my usual style.

Just lucky with the light this morning. Just one of those moments where the magic happens and all you gotta do is hit the shutter.

Here's a photo of his girlfriend too.

#Photography #Melbourne #WildOZ #UrbanBirds
Female of the pair. Sulphur Crested Cockatoo. Downtown Melbourne CBD on a cool summers day. We had two pairs and a solo cocky visit this morning. They like to chomp through the balcony plants and wake up the neighbours.
#photography #wildoz #melbourne #urbanbirds

Surprise guests this morning :) Holy moly these lads are loud.

I just love their squeeky calls. The screeching is a little intense, but then they slip into quiet talk and it's very charming.

#WildOz #UrbanBirds #Melbourne #SulphurCrestedCockatoo
Sulpher Crested Cockatoo enjoying the morning sunlight in downtown Melbourne
#wildoz #melbourne #urbanbirds #SulphurCrestedCockatoo

It took a while before I saw a bee-eater living up to its name

Here's a couple of Rainbow Bee-eaters hunting from a tall branch. In one shot it appears a carpenter bee is meeting its end, but most of the prey being grabbed from the sky while we watched were dragonflies

Rainbow Dragonfly-eater is a bit clumsy to say though, I see that. Rainbow Dragonslayer perhaps?

#WildOz #OzBirds #birds #Wildlife South Pine River
Two brightly coloured birds, one perched on a branch to left of shot and one in flight left-to-right in right of shot. Bird in flight has dragonfly in its beak. Background is a leafy tree, with bright patches of featureless but bright overcast sky
Two brightly coloured birds perched on a horizontal branch with insect prey in their beaks. Background is leafy tree canopy with patches of bright overcast sky
#WildLife #birds #wildoz #ozbirds

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