Hoppy Easter! Not the bunny ...more a swampy.

It's the Easter Swampy!

Looks like a kangaroo or wallaby but in fact the swamp, or black wallaby (wallaby bicolor)  is the only living member of the genus Wallabia. The difference is all in the chromosomes, apparently.

Sure it hops with the best of them but, unlike the others, it puts its head down when going for it in the bush. Love the long tail with the white tip - this one is standing in our pond which is now full of water again after yesterday's torrential  rain. The frogs are in their element!

Check out more about swampies at:
http://www.wiresnr.org/swampwallabyfacts.html

Vertigo: where the Peregrine Falcons nest

Cliff view ©AP BCTraveller.

Out on a limb (rock!) to photograph the boronia on the cliffside. The Peregrine falcons nest in a little cave, centre left. Wedge-tailed eagles on the other side of the plateau, when they choose us. Yesterday we had a visit from yellow-tailed cockatoos, glossy black cockatoos, a lyrebird, several satin bowerbirds, wonga pigeons, brown cuckoo doves, king parrots plus a host of little birds including fantails and yellow robins.

Sulphur-crested looks on. ©AP TBTraveller

Brown Cuckoo Dove. ©AP TBTraveller

Wonga Pigeon ©AP TBTraveller

Swamp Wallaby.©AP BCTraveller.

Here's a swamp wallaby in our pond, just about to drink from what's left of the water. A possum has been trying to get in to our place at night,  seems very keen after it managed a raid on the bananas.