I was meeting with some friends at Mt Cootha Botanical Gardens today, so I took my camera along to see what I could see.

Eastern water dragon (Physignathus lesueurii lesueurii)

Eastern water dragon (Physignathus lesueurii lesueurii). He’s opening his mouth and standing erect as a way of warding off a smaller dragon that’s out of frame.

Eastern water [...]

There was a bit of rain about on Saturday night, so some friends and I decided to go down to Karawatha Forest to have a poke around. We heard and saw lots of eastern sedgefrogs (Litoria fallax), plus we heard another species that I’m yet to identify.

Eastern sedgefrog (Litoria fallax).

Eastern sedgefrog (Litoria fallax).

Eastern sedgefrog (Litoria [...]

The armoured mist frog (Litoria lorica) was last seen in 1991 and was thought to have be wiped out by the fungal disease chytridiomycosis. But Professor Ross Alford from James Cook University has told reporters that the frog has been found in rainforests to the north and west of Cairns:
“It turns out that these frogs [...]