A Swamp Wallaby comes to visit

When I went out to the kitchen at 5:45 this morning I found that we had a relatively unusual visitor to the garden in the form of a Swamp Wallaby (Wallabia bicolor).  They are reasonably common lurking in the Kunzea scrub further up the block but not so frequent inthis position.
The question is often asked "What is the difference between a wallaby and a kangaroo?"  I have never found an all-embracing answer to that question, mainly due to the range of sizes of both groups.  However, a picture may be worth 1000 words in this case.
The others here are Eastern Grey Kangaroos (Macropus giganteus). Apart from the colour of the fur, the shape of the ears helps, and wallabies are smaller than adult 'roos.  They also travel with a different gait: 'swampies' tend to travel low to the ground in a humped posture, generally after exploding from cover and causing much alarm to passing joggers and bush walkers.

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