Australia Wildlife

A few more eastern kangaroos. Note the distended pouch and the joey's legs sticking out of it:

What's this? A bit of tourist trash left behind in a park? But why is it all blue? And what's that grass structure next to it?

No, this place is a bower - a nesting and mating place for Satin Bowerbird. It creates and decorates this structures to entice females. There are many types of bowerbirds, and they all specialize in different colors. Satin Bowerbird does blue (and notice how all of its decorations are even the same blue hue!) The grass structure is called the avenue. It is created artificially and carefully groomed, and oriented in such a way that any female going through it would have its breath taken away by all the blue treasures on the other side.

Satin Bowerbird - the creator of all the splendidness above:

And some more wildlife shots. (Is it just me, or is that turtle smiling?)