This footage shows two wallabies running around in - the English countryside.

The small mammal is usually associated with Australia and New Zealand.

But sightings have become increasingly common in Britain - with the latest taking place near Henley-on-Thames, Oxon.

Walker Brian Montague, 40, initially thought he had spotted deer.

But as he got closer he realised he was looking at wallabies - possibly a mother and her child.

Video shows one of the wallabies hopping away into the bushes.

Brian, from Reading, Berks., said: "I am quite good at spotting animals."

"At first I thought it was a deer and took the phone out. But then I worked out it wasn't deer, it was two wallabies. I was really surprised. "

"I didn't expect to see them around the Oxfordshire area."

He said this was the first time to ever seen the animals.

"I do a lot of walking in the Chilterns and I have never seen them," Brian said. "There is definitely a difference in a size and the way they were so close together it just looked like a mother and a child. "

"Then I just heard them disappearing and bouncing into the woods. "

This is not the first time this year that a wallaby has been spotted in Oxfordshire.

Back in May a possible sighting happened on the A4130 at 3am.

Experts believe that animal was probably an escapee.

The mammals, whose scientific name is Notamacropus rufogriseus, are native of eastern Australia, including Tasmania; about as big as a medium-sized dog, with a grey-brown body and the kangaroo family's characteristic two-footed hop.

Like all marsupials, they carry their young in a pouch.