urban daisy

Wallabies are macropods, but smaller than kangaroos.  It’s interesting to watch how they use their tails to get along when travelling slowly.  It looks clumsy, but when they decide to really move, they are fast!  The tail creates perfect balance, and the speed and grace with which they cover ground is a delight to observe.

It made me late for the party, but I couldn’t walk past this beauty without trying to capture an image of the promise of something grand.  They are not native to Australia but grow well here, and are used in many boquets and arrangements combined with our native flora.

Of course, they are not really called that: there is probably a perfectly sensible botanical name.  But they should be called “the cat’s whiskers” because it is so apt.

We were spotlighting for owls when we came across what looked like a tree covered in overgrown tissues.  Closer inspection revealed a great flock of roosting Egrets.  A little shy of the camera, this one left in a bid to escape the attention.

I feel sad when I see him: he can’t be long for this world.

I love these pink and grey cockatoos.  This flock was set to flight just as I arrived with my camera.