We arrived at the Ocean Grove Nature Conservation Reserve late in the afternoon. A lovely warm day.
The reserve is a huge bush block that is surrounded by a 2-metre-high fence. Good for keeping the feral animals out.
The walking track meanders around the woody forest, we can hear plenty of bird life, seeing them is a bit more elusive. We wandered past a dam and a little lake with some ducks swimming about.
Michael had stopped to take a photo, as he often does, I often just walk on past, this time, however, I came up short as a wallaby was busy munching on the grass just in front of us. I hadn’t seen it until the last minute.
This little swamp wallaby was only metres away from us. Nearly close enough to pat. She was busy nibbling away at some grass.
Then her head dived under a rotting branch on the ground, and with her front paws she pulled away the leaf litter, and sat back on her haunches eating something that she was gripping between her front paws.
I thought it looked like a mushroom, but we needed to check, and zoomed in using Michael’s camera. Sure enough, this Swamp Wallaby had snuffled out a treat, found it under a rotting log, pulled away all the leaf litter and found herself a nice pre-dinner hors d’oeuvres. After finishing that one, she sniffed around and found another.
It appears that it’s a thing for swamp wallabies. I’d never seen a wallaby eat a mushroom before.
After the nibbles, the wallaby bounded off into the scrub, and we continued on our walk.