Afew weekends ago I headed down to the lower Mornington Peninsula, about an hour SE of Melbournes CBD.
I was keen to photograph some white-lipped snakes, and this time proved to finally be the day!.
First I did a circuit of a canoe dam surrounded by dense reeds on a resort that was close by...
Some more herping pics - who could have guessed it!
Heres an old Delma impar slough from Central Victoria, Wouldve been cool to frame!
Delma impar sloughed skin by Nick Gale, on Flickr
And a baby stumpy tail from Bendigo, nothing is better than seeing one of these after finding nothing for two...
God I love this place,
The people are so friendly, and it is just a beautiful place overall. Visiting the market, we bought some delicious homemade jams and relishes and some wood burnt art from a very talented elderly woman.
But, I wanted herps, and so far, I have a few, but no photos. I was...
Here are some pics from the past week i took down at the Mornington Peninsula, which is about an hour south east of Melbourne.
I had afew species in mind, including the metallic skink, swamp skink and white lipped snake.
I had photographed swamp skinks and seen white lips before, but mettalics...
Some pictures from the last month or so, ill try to add some story in with them...
I went up to Mt Buller in Victoria with my family for a ski trip earlier last month, and after seeing afew thawed out ski runs, I went to investigate.
McCoy’s Skink ( Anepischestosia maccoy) by Nick Gale, on...
Hello,
I have found this skink in Wilson's Promontory NP (VIC) in November 2009. I could not find what it was on the field but now I have looked at it more carefully with a book, I think it could be an Acritoscincus duperreyi (Eastern Three-lined Skink). Could you please confirm my ID?
I...
So I was giving the dog a bath and noticed a large hole in the dirt. We have had quite a lot of Wolf spiders at the moment and the kids are a little worried about em so I put the hose down it to see if it would come out.... as you do!
After a while, these little white things came up and I...
Got a new flash for my camera last week so tested it out on a couple of skinks ive found in the past week! :)
hope you like the pics
couldnt lure one of these out this time!
Cunningham's Skink (Egernia cunninghami) by Nick Volpe, on Flickr
These skinks are actually pretty cool! pain to...
So after looking at my crap photos of the Haswell's Froglet (Paracrinia haswelli) I took last week i decided to come back during the day since my camera isnt that sophisticated it takes horrible shots at night. I heard one calling but given that it was a sunny and during the day i expected that...
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got this bluey removed about 23 ticks but still a few more isnt she an interesting colour is she a stage of hyper? het maybe?
and is it a boy or a girl thanks :)
I can keep her cause i have a Tasmanian herp permit (just for all the APS experts)
Went back to my spot the other day on an overcast day to get some pics of skinks :),
worked out good and im very pleased!!!
i took alot of videos but relised i had them all on a low size thats why they have been all coming out crap :( (relised that before the bird video!), so didnt put much...