Red-necked Wallaby near Stroud, NSW

By contrast to the large Grey Kangaroos I showed you yesterday, here are some of the very pretty, and much smaller Red-necked Wallabies (Macropus Rufogriseus) which I saw last week near Stroud, north of Newcastle.

This is a genuinely "wild" male Red-necked Wallaby which I saw at a property adjacent to "Washpool Creek" (one of many creeks in NSW with that name), near Stroud.
By contrast, these images are of a group of equally wild, but "socialised" Wallabies. These lovely animals have trained my friends Amanda and Steve to cut the grass just outside the fence, and to offer them regular feed.

Here is the buck Red-necked WallabyA Doe, heavy with a joey in her pouch

Another male, keeping his distance

My favourite image of the same doe.
Her joey did poke its head out, briefly.
You can see the entrance to the pouch, visible just under her front paws.
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Life is sweet for these Wallabies.