Sydney, Part V - Wildlife

Ibises (below) are not as common in Sydney as Gulls are, but no one seems especially surprised by the fact that such large birds are freely roaming the city's lawns and docks.





















A Flying Fox (an enormous fruit bat) at the Sydney Botanical Gardens. While it's really cool to see a huge colony of these creatures right at the city's heart, it is quite sad to learn that they once covered the sky throughout South-eastern Australia, but over the past few decades their habitats have been so stressed out by human development that they now have almost nowhere else to go.








































This Grevilliea and beautiful Fungi are from the Blue Mountains NP.