
Just off-track at Mulligans Flat Woodland sanctuary, and I spooked a mama Swampy and her joey. I kept my distance, and was able to take a few shots, unfortunately the little Olympus has a habit of back-focussing, so I'm not 100% happy with the pic. But I love the white eucalypt trunks in the background (Scribbly Gums (?), still gotta improve my euc ID skills), and of course I can't remember coming across a Swampy and her joey before. Somewhere, at sometime in this little woodland sanctuary, little Swampies are copulating! A few minutes after leaving them, a mother Red-necked wallaby (a little bigger than swampies) and her joey also leaped out of the tussock grasses. Unfortunately, they were not as agreeable to my presence. I will from now on keep a look out for furry rumps among the tussocks, rather than head and shoulders protruding above the grass-line.