Day 110: ...in the old gumtree.
A cautious early call today. There is much chocolate to be had, rocky road to be photographed (I'm thinking texture...) etc and so forth.
The backyard noises last night were a little more heavy-footed than usual, even as poss grows. A bit odd I thought. Awoke this morning to poss safely back in her box, Dylan the kooka hanging about and...
...no, wait. This needs, as we academics are wont to say, 'context'. I've showed off poss and Dylan (the kooka whose feathers were 'blowin' in the wind one day), the loris and scaly breasted green parrots all in my backyard. I work on a campus shared with a couple of mobs of kangaroos. When I travel overseas I have to temper that foreign belief that we ride kangas down the streets and everyone has a koala in the backyard. Until today.
Along with poss and Dylan, sat a new welcome visitor, a koala in the gum tree. Quite exciting really. Very unexpected in these parts given the rapid housing development in recent years. In fact, everyone's excited...there's just something about koalas.
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| You have to look... |
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| ...and look... |
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| ...and eventually go with the close crop! |
So, true to the #project365 mantra, this was just one of those wondrous moments, serendipity and completely unexpected. A joy!
[Camera : Canon EOS 60D, 75-300mm, 6.09am, 7.58am, 6.12am (really))
