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new species in the garden

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Subject: new species in the garden
From: "Mark Clayton" <>
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 18:52:07 +1100

This morning at 4 am my wife got up to get a drink. When she came back to bed a movement outside our window in our driveway in Kaleen attracted her attention. Her initial reaction was a kangaroo but when I looked at it, it was clearly a Swamp (Black) Wallaby. It is not all that unusual to have Eastern Grey Kangaroos in the yards of people in Canberra, especially if you live on the urban fringes, but Swamp Wallabies I would think are something quite unusual. Where this one has come from I have no idea but we are not that far, as the wallaby hops, from the Gungahlin Hill section of Canberra Nature Park. It would still have to had to cross a lot of yards and possible fences, plus the Barton Highway, to get to my place on Maribyrnong Avenue. It made an interesting change to the Pacific Koel that calls around that time in the general area!

 

Mark

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