Archive for the 'Animal photos' Category

Rainy days

Saturday, March 13th, 2010

All this recent rain has been causing havoc in parts of inland Queensland. Thargomindah, Charleville, and now St George have been flooded and/or cut off. (Somewhat amusingly, the prediction in December was that we’d get below average rains this season.) While the floodwaters are responsible for what will ultimately be a huge damage bill, [...]


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251: First new reptick for 2010

Saturday, March 13th, 2010

My friend Melissa messaged me the other night, letting me know she was heading out to the Lamington Plateau to look for various critters. It had been a stinking hot day, so the chances of finding interesting beasties were quite high. Unfortunately I had a heap of work to do, so I started writing a [...]


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Snakelings!

Saturday, March 13th, 2010

My Children’s python (Antaresia childreni) has been sitting on her clutch of nine eggs since laying them on the 25th of October last year. They hatched on Boxing Day. I had wanted to write a longer post and make mention of brooding behaviour and physiology, but time is against me so I’ll just post some [...]


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Baby snakes

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

A colleague of mine has recently welcomed some new snakes into the world.

Hatchling eastern brown snake (Pseudonaja textilis) siblings. One clutch can produce hatchlings with a variety of patterns and colours.


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Windorah or bust

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

I’m a repticker (as my recent Quest for 250 saga shows). I have a list of reptiles that I’ve seen. I like adding to my list. I woke up one day in early October and realised I’d never seen Cyclodomorphus venustus. This both shocked and worried me. What if I got hit by a bus [...]


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Frog versus snake

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

Last night I went up to Mt Glorious with some friends to see what we could see. We walked down to a set of waterfalls. On the way down we saw lots of great barred frogs (Mixophyes fasciolatus) and a golden-crowned snake (Cacophis squamulosus). We were heading down to the waterfall to look for Litoria [...]


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250/250: Lampropholis amicula

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

This is the third story relating to my quest to take my lifetime list of Australian reptile species to 250 before the end of 2009. For previous instalments, read the introduction, the first story, the second story and the second-and-a-half story.
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After the success I had with finding species 248 and 249, the dismal failure of [...]


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249/250: my luck runs out

Thursday, December 24th, 2009

This is the second-and-a-half story relating to my quest to take my lifetime list of Australian reptile species to 250 before the end of 2009. For previous instalments, read the introduction, the first story and the second story.
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I just needed to find one more species to achieve my goal of seeing 250 Australian reptile species [...]


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