Our peach pincher, parsley pecking, chive chomping, beetroot biting, spring onion stealing, rose ripping wallaby now visits during the daylight hours as well as at night giving us the opportunity to take a portrait shot or two. Here is our native neighbour who is as fond of eating from our garden as we are...
I am calling him Old half-ear. He is an old male Swamp Wallaby who has obviously come off second best in a fight or two. We have noticed him on our walks into the Nature Reserve next door, he is always alone and never seems afraid, he has seen it all I suspect.
As well as his tattered ears he has a big scar on his back and lumps and bumps on his tail but I think a proud stance. The fence line provides no barrier, he hops right through.
I am ok sharing my peaches with him now, I have more than I can eat and use anyway. It is possible that, as this property has been vacant for a good while, he has been eating the peaches here for years. Old half-ear may be cross with having to share his peaches with us?
He can no longer get into the vegetable patch - thank goodness, the beetroot are now all our own!
I expect Ol Half Ears is grateful for the new range of veg to go with his peaches. I expect he is hoping for a piece of BBQ protein but not kangaroo
ReplyDeleteHe is very inquisitive! His favourite non peach food is beetroot tops, mint and parsley.
DeleteHe's quite chubby isn't he - too many peaches perhaps...
ReplyDeleteYes, chubby... perhaps he shouldnt have looked so inquisitively at the BBQ. The other day on MKR they did a Wallaby dish...
DeleteHalf Tail. Half Ear. Do you attract mutilated wild-life??
ReplyDeleteHe is rather on the porky-side, as Liz pointed out. I expect you don't begrudge him a peach or two and I reckon he is prepared to share, too. I see some interesting interactions in your future/s!
Yes, it is odd isnt it! I suspect that animals like humans are not perfect. We are used to seeing Skippy perfectly groomed.
DeleteAs long as I can keep him of the patch at the moment I feel like I am winning. In one night he can ruin weeks of growing.