HUNGRY WALLABY

You have probably heard about our horrific heatwave and and bush fires.  All the east coast states have been affected. Lucky for us in Brisbane we didn't get the heat as bad as in the southern states. However, we have fires raging around the outside of Brisbane. We are lucky not to have any close to us yet. There have been hundreds of homes and properties lost. My heart goes out to these victims.

It is so dry in the nearby forests that the wallabies don't have enough grass to eat so they come to feed in suburban gardens. This guy was disappointed to find that our garden is also frizzled up and dried out with not much to offer. It depresses him and it depresses me but I am better off than those who have lost their house.

I took this with my P&S through my study window.

A wallaby belongs to the Kangaroo family (Macropodea). There are more than 60 different kinds of kangaroos including many different kinds of wallabies. Wallabies are smaller than kangaroos. I think this one is a Red Neck Wallaby. (Hee hee a Redneck!!!) 

  

The Return of Fat Butt

It is overcast and showery today so Fat Butt is having breakfast later than usual, which meant that I was up and could snap him. I actually wanted to shoo him away from eating my newly planted Grevillea shrubs, which I nursed through the dry period. Instead, I watched him mow them down while I got shots of him.

" Hi, I'm Fat Butt, I visit this garden often. There are so many juicy plants to snack on."

"Mmmmm look at that the old lady has planted some fresh young Grevillea, smells good."

"Let me try some."

"Yum, yum delicious. I'll just hang on to it ready for my next bite. Sorry for talking with my mouth full. Mmm so young and fresh. The old girl is watching me with that big, black, clicky thing but she's harmless and a good old stick for sharing her garden with me."

"Oh boy! Look at that tall shoot that I have missed. Looks good."

" That's the one. Mmmm yum yum. Uh oh, she's getting a bit close now, maybe I had better leave the rest of the Grevillea for her. I'm off to find another juicy morsal."

"Crikey! She is still clicking away and following me, but I'm so cute she won't hurt me."

"Now I know she won't mind if I mow the grass for a while."

" She's getting awfully close. I'm getting a bit scared. I'll make myself big and show her that I am a male and not to be messed with."

"I'm not sure about her. I hop away and she keeps following me with that clicky thingy. I'm off now but I'll be back, earlier next time, when the old girl is still in bed."

Cute But Unwelcome Visitor

We are having very dry ,warm,windy weather. Outside is like standing in front of a giant hairdryer. The garden is shrivelling up and crying out for water. The forest grasses have dried out and died so the wallabies (small species of kangaroo) come into suburban gardens and eat the green plants. They especially like new shoots and young plants that I am lovingly trying to keep alive with the little water that we are allowed to use. So as cute as they are I don't like them eating my plants that are already struggling to survive but I let them because that's nature.

Mmmmmmm this one is pretty good.

The grass looks greener over there.

Just a few chomps on the new gazania first.

This is a bit short and dry.

Better be off here comes human (with camera).