Archive for December, 2007

Road to Springbrook

Monday, December 10th, 2007

Alecia and I drove down to New South Wales last night to have a bit of a poke around. Unfortunately, we found a lot of dead snakes, and only three live ones.
Critters found dead or dying on the road:

Eastern small-eyed snake (Cryptophis nigrescens)
Rough-scaled snake (Tropidechis carinatus)
Brown tree snake (Boiga irregularis) x 2
Common scaly-foot (Pygopus lepidopodus)
Yellow-faced


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Backyard blue-tongue

Sunday, December 9th, 2007

I just found an eastern blue-tongued skink (Tiliqua scincoides scincoides) in the yard.

Eastern blue-tongued skink (Tiliqua scincoides scincoides)

Eastern blue-tongued skink (Tiliqua scincoides scincoides)


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Lamington Plateau

Sunday, December 9th, 2007

Alecia and I spent 24 hours up at the Lamington Plateau with some (human) friends of ours, looking for some (animal) friends of ours.

Rough-scaled snake (Tropidechis carinatus). He’s hanging around a frog pond waiting for dinner.


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Two nights at Mt Glorious

Sunday, December 9th, 2007

Yet again Alecia and I headed to Mt Glorious to see what we could see. We saw a lot. Critters we saw but didn’t photograph were:

Echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus)
Brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) x 2
Keelback (Tropidonophis mairii - dead on road)
Eastern small-eyed snake (Cryptophis nigrescens)
Brown tree snake (Boiga irregularis) x 2
Another coastal carpet python (Morelia spilota mcdowelli)
Anomalopus


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Looking for a Christmas gift for that special someone?

Saturday, December 1st, 2007

Alecia and I have made some calendars from a bunch of our images. One calendar features images taken in September on a privately owned conservation reserve in far western Queensland. I’m donating all profits from the sale of this calendar to the property’s owner, Bush Heritage Australia. More details and pics are available from our


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