{"id":799357,"date":"2026-10-11T17:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T17:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/799357\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T17:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T17:50:11","slug":"wallaby-spotted-by-hospital-staff-in-cornwall-after-night-shift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/799357\/","title":{"rendered":"Wallaby spotted by hospital staff in Cornwall after night shift"},"content":{"rendered":"

“There, staring at me, was this marsupial who I had only ever seen before in Animal Kingdom in Florida”<\/p>\n

12:37, 11 Oct 2026Updated 13:15, 11 Oct 2026<\/p>\n

\"Lee<\/p>\n

Lee Honeywill, from Sherford in Plymouth, snapped a photo of a wallaby in the car park of Liskeard Hospital after his night shift(Image: Lee Honeywill)<\/p>\n

A hospital worker from Plymouth came face to face with a wallaby in the car park of the hospital he works at in Cornwall after a busy night shift.<\/p>\n

Lee Honeywill, who lives in Sherford<\/a>, was just finishing his 11pm to 7am shift at Liskeard <\/a>Hospital on Sunday morning (October 11) when he spotted the animal, much to his surprise.<\/p>\n

Lee, who is an advanced clinical practitioner for Kernow Health and also works at Knowle House Surgery in Plymouth, told PlymouthLive: “I finished my shift and when I went to drive away, I checked my side mirrors and there, staring at me, was this marsupial, who I had only ever seen before in Animal Kingdom in Florida.<\/p>\n

“After a long night shift, I did a double take given my tiredness and what I thought I was looking at. I got out of my car to take a picture before he hopped away at speed across the car park, to nearby woodland.<\/p>\n

“I am sure it was a red necked wallaby, usually only found in warmer climates. So it’s obviously a rare sight. But I did manage to snap him on my phone.”<\/p>\n

Lee’s photo shows the animal looking right at him, just a few cars away from where his car was parked in the car park.<\/p>\n

\"Lee<\/p>\n

Lee Honeywill, from Sherford in Plymouth, snapped a photo of a wallaby in the car park of Liskeard Hospital after his night shift(Image: Lee Honeywill)<\/p>\n

This latest sighting comes after CornwallLive reported that a wallaby had been filmed hopping around a Liskeard industrial estate<\/a> back in June.<\/p>\n

Video footage captured by a worker at the Liskeard Business Park in Quimperle Way, off the A390, who had been on his way to work when he spotted the marsupial looking lost.<\/p>\n

People in a local Facebook<\/a> group, in which the video was shared, have since been wondering where the wallaby has escaped from and how it ended up in Liskeard.<\/p>\n

Local animal park Porfell Wildlife Park and Sanctuary, which is located at Trecangate, Lanreath outside Liskeard, said it had been contacted by people about the escaped wallaby.<\/p>\n

However in a post on its own Facebook it confirmed all its animals were accounted for. It said: “We are aware of a wallaby on the loose in the Liskeard area. All of our wallabies are accounted for and are safe in their field.”<\/p>\n

It’s not the first time wallabies have been spotted hopping around in Cornwall.<\/p>\n

A wallaby was previously captured on camera appearing unphased as it made its way down the A39<\/a>, near Newquay<\/a> at around 10.30pm on August 22, 2024.<\/p>\n

Sadly that Newquay-spotted wallaby was later discovered dead by the side of the road<\/a> after being hit by a car. The incident was reported to Devon and Cornwall Police<\/a> who said the animal was reported lying dead by the side of the A39 on August 26, 2024 and was dropped off at a local vet.<\/p>\n

Other wallabies have also reportedly been seen around mainly eastern areas of Cornwall over the years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“There, staring at me, was this marsupial who I had only ever seen before in Animal Kingdom in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":799358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[1397,128637,90,262802,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-799357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-environment","tag-liskeard","tag-science","tag-sherford","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/799358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}