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Backyard wallaby has been hanging around a bit lately, and it's obvious why.
That's a very full pouch!

#macropod #SwampWallaby #AustralianWildlife #WildOz

Swamp Wallaby standing upright. Her huge pouch is partially hidden by the massive thigh muscles.
She's brown with russet tinges on the top of the head and neck. Black paws, ears and face. — Swamp Wallaby standing upright. Her huge pouch is partially hidden by the massive thigh muscles. She's brown with russet tinges on the top of the head and neck. Black paws, ears and face.

Swamp Wallaby standing behind a granite boulder. She's kinda triangular in shape due to the large pouch.

A swamp wallaby on all fours and stretched out to nibble some especially tasty grass. Her pouch is HUGE and clearly full of joey.

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@david@photog.social · 5 days ago

Backyard wallaby has been hanging around a bit lately, and it's obvious why.
That's a very full pouch!

#macropod #SwampWallaby #AustralianWildlife #WildOz

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@david@photog.social · 6 days ago

And when leaving work today, I found another set of Bush Stone-Curlew chicks! These ones were over near the carpark I park in.

You can see how well their colouring matches the kinds of environments they prefer.

#Bird #AustralianWildlife #WildOz #BushStoneCurlew

One of the chicks looking around its parent which dwarfs it in size and attitude.

Two white and brown chicks with long-ish necks sitting on the ground amongst the leaf and stick litter which is almost exactly the same colour as they are.

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@david@photog.social · 6 days ago

And when leaving work today, I found another set of Bush Stone-Curlew chicks! These ones were over near the carpark I park in.

You can see how well their colouring matches the kinds of environments they prefer.

#Bird #AustralianWildlife #WildOz #BushStoneCurlew

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@david@photog.social · last week

While out on my inaugural Bird Count (for this years Great Aussie Bird Count), I found TEN (10) fresh Pacific Black Duck ducklings and an attentive mother-duck.

So of course, I had to take photos.

#WildOz #Bird #AustralianWildlife #PacificBlackDuck #duckling

Duck and ducklings swimming to the right. The water surface is reflecting the shore foliage in shades of green, and their little yellow faces stand out.

Looking down at the duck and ducklings as they duckling pass through a patch of sun.

A mother Pacific Black Duck swims to the right, and her brood of nine ducklings cling close to her tail. They are all reflected in the water surface.

A mother pacific black duck swims in the sun trailed by a tight group of quite young ducklings. The ducklings are mostly brown but with yellow faces. The mother duck is also mostly brown and in this shot you can see her green shiny wing panel.

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@david@photog.social · 7 days ago

I stopped to count the frogs this morning, and there was an extremely tiny one (about 1cm long).

These two shots are taken at the same distance (approx 2.9m away) and cropped the same amount. The one on the left is the tiny tiny frog, and the right hand one is a regular sized Dwarf Tree Frog (approximately 3cm long).

#AustralianWildlife #WildOz #EasternDwarfTreeFrog #frog

A regular sized Dwarf Tree Frog (approx 3cm) on a reed. Fully green on top, white underside, much less bandit mask.

A very very tiny frog on a reed leaf. It is approximately 1cm long, green and brown on top, white chin/underside and a bandit mask.

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@david@photog.social · 7 days ago

I stopped to count the frogs this morning, and there was an extremely tiny one (about 1cm long).

#AustralianWildlife #WildOz #EasternDwarfTreeFrog #frog

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@david@photog.social · last week

While out on my inaugural Bird Count (for this years Great Aussie Bird Count), I found TEN (10) fresh Pacific Black Duck ducklings and an attentive mother-duck.

So of course, I had to take photos.

#WildOz #Bird #AustralianWildlife #PacificBlackDuck #duckling

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@david@photog.social · last week

Pelicans and jacaranda flowers this morning.

#AustralianWildlife #Bird #WildOz #AustralianPelican

Two pelicans on a semi-submerged log in the middle of a lake. There are jacaranda trees in full bloom on the far bank that are reflected in the lake surface around the pelicans.

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@david@photog.social · last week

Pelicans and jacaranda flowers this morning.

#AustralianWildlife #Bird #WildOz #AustralianPelican

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@david@photog.social · 3 weeks ago

"And I... will always love you"

2025 - Whitney^H^H^H Conb-Crested Jacana

#Bird #AustralianWildlife #WildOz #CombCrestedJacana

An adult Comb-Crested Jacana with its head back and beak wide open like it's singing a long note. (In reality it was probably yawning).

It is a brown bodied bird with buff and white neck, relatively small beak and a red comb. It also has relatively long legs and huge feet, but they can't be seen as it is standing on water weed which is obscuring the feet. — An adult Comb-Crested Jacana with its head back and beak wide open like it's singing a long note. (In reality it was probably yawning). It is a brown bodied bird with buff and white neck, relatively small beak and a red comb. It also has relatively long legs and huge feet, but they can't be seen as it is standing on water weed which is obscuring the feet.

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@david@photog.social · 3 weeks ago

"And I... will always love you"

2025 - Whitney^H^H^H Conb-Crested Jacana

#Bird #AustralianWildlife #WildOz #CombCrestedJacana

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@david@photog.social · 3 weeks ago

There were 15 Eastern Dwarf Tree Frogs this morning (that I managed to count anyway).

#AustralianWildlife #WildOz #EasternDwarfTreeFrog #frog

Two tiny frogs perched vertically on a green reed. They are almost but not quite the same shade of green, and like the reed, have a white stripe down the side.

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@david@photog.social · 3 weeks ago

There were 15 Eastern Dwarf Tree Frogs this morning (that I managed to count anyway).

#AustralianWildlife #WildOz #EasternDwarfTreeFrog #frog

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@david@photog.social · 3 weeks ago

The turtle I spotted the other day, was back on the same rock this morning, but this time facing us, rather than mooning us.

#AustralianWildlife #WildOz #EasternShortNeckedTurtle #turtle

A side view of the turtle on a rock, plus its reflection in the still water of the lake.

A smallish turtle perched on a rock in a lake in the morning sun. It has its head up, basking.

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@david@photog.social · 3 weeks ago

The turtle I spotted the other day, was back on the same rock this morning, but this time facing us, rather than mooning us.

#AustralianWildlife #WildOz #EasternShortNeckedTurtle #turtle

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@david@photog.social · 3 weeks ago

A small sample of the many Eastern Water Dragons around campus as the weather warms up.

They all have their defined territories but sometimes the world's slowest territorial disputes occur, whereby an invading party very very slowly encroaches on an existing territory and there is much head bobbing and circling.

#AustralianWildlife #WildOz #EasternWaterDragon

One half of a territorial dispute. This large male is the interloper. It has its mouth slightly ajar and is trying to look threatening.

Another juvenile water dragon. It has bolder stripes and mottling and blends in nicely with the tree bark of the tree it is sitting on.

An adult male Eastern Water Dragon. This one has the red flush of breeding season on its chest and belly, and the spikes on the back of its neck are more prominent.

A juvenile water dragon that was oddly quite near an older adult. It is a greyish lizard about 20cm long with faint stripes laterally across its body and a row of very short spikes along its spine.