Tuesday, July 30, 2024

Wallaby on the loose photographed in Nottinghamshire village

Forget big cats: BBC News has a story about the sighting of  a wallaby in the Nottinghamshire village of Calverton.

What is more, someone has taken a remarkably clear photo of the incongruous marsupial.

He or she may well be a lone escapee, but wallabies can survive in England. A colony of them flourished in the Staffordshire Peak District for decades after the war, though the conventional wisdom is that the harsh winter of 2010 did for them.

But, intriguingly, a story on The Manc suggests there have been more recent sightings in the area.

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