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10-Mar-08, 11:03 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Oct-04 Location: Western Sydney | | | Recent holiday to northern NSW.
G'day All,
I recently went on a brief holiday to Northern NSW (near grafton). I couldn't help myself, so some herping was done.
We did a quick trip to Mt Warning and found these two species (new ones to me). Assa darlingtoni, the pouched frog. The adults can happily fit onto a 5c piece.  Saproscincus challengeri was another new one for me. 
Back nearer to home I did much more night driving and herping.
One new species for me was the Northern Bettong..... Here's a road kill i found. 
There was plenty of frogs about the place.
Here's a Litoria freycineti. 
a Litoria nasuta... Young males were calling. I guess they metamorphosed late september and are now old enough to call. 
A metamorph I found near a pond. I'm guessing a Litoria tyleri. 
Barred frogs were hopping on the side of the road, so we found a few like that. I also found a creek that had calling males all along it. This species is Mixophyes fasciolatus.  
The red-back toadlets Pseudophryne coriaceaup north are less spectacular compared to the southern ones. 
Every so often we'd turn up some roadkill.
Here is a burtons legless lizard. 
A crown snake 
a swamp snake Hemiapsis signata 
and an eastern bearded. 
Luckily a few escaped the cars that travel the roads at 100km/h.
an eastern bearded (was asleep on a tree when i found it) 
Some small-eyed snakes Cryptophis nigrescens. These were the largish QLD form. 
This one has a particularly massive head. 
Golden crown snakes Cacophis squamulosiswere also found alive and well (rescued from the road). 
As were some carpet pythons. I always enjoy seeing large wild pythons as they represent the top predator in that area. Not much was going to try and eat this monster.  
Unfortunately the same couldn't be said for his smaller counter-part, found about 100 meters up the road from the big carpet (still very cute though).  
But far and away the best animal we found was the magnificent rough scale snake Tropidechis carinatus.  
-H
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10-Mar-08, 11:15 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Nov-07 Location: Brisbane Gender:  | | | would've been good to see so much wildlife around, pitty about the roadkill though.
nice shots 
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10-Mar-08, 11:18 PM
|  | Regular Member | | | | | Brilliant photos Nephrurus.Once again,keep up the good work!! |
10-Mar-08, 11:25 PM
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10-Mar-08, 11:25 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jun-06 Location: CQ | | | | I really like that first Cryptophis nigrescens shot its excellent.
Sadly a species that has eluded me this season.
Roughy looks cute LOL
Matt.
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10-Mar-08, 11:29 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Jan-08 Location: Sydney Age/Gender: 30 | | | | great shots, love the counter part |
10-Mar-08, 11:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Australis  Im really like that first Cryptophis nigrescens shot its excellent.
Sadly a species that has eluded me this season.
Roughy looks cute LOL
Matt. | Thanks Matt. Encouraging those bastards to do a threat display and stay still is incredibly frustrating. In reality it didn't take that long, but there were plenty of moments where it was still enough raise up my camera to take a photo, but then it's move into a bad position.
-H
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10-Mar-08, 11:37 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Sep-06 Location: Perth Age: 23 | | | | Unreal mate, the Roughy and Small eye shots are great.
Jordan
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10-Mar-08, 11:45 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: May-06 Location: Brisbane Gender: | | | | Nice haul! If you're in NSW that's a very lost northern bettong. It's more than likely a rufous bettong.
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11-Mar-08, 08:36 AM
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11-Mar-08, 12:07 PM
|  | instant karma Subscriber | Join Date: Jun-07 Location: melbourne Age/Gender: 24 | | | Awesome pics! 
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11-Mar-08, 12:22 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Aug-06 Location: Wollongong | | | | Very nice, Henry. I especially liked the Rough-scaled Snake.
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11-Mar-08, 12:59 PM
|  | Regular Member | | | | | Excellent pics!
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11-Mar-08, 04:32 PM
|  | is....McLovin Subscriber | Join Date: Oct-06 Location: northern suburbs-Sydney Age/Gender: 15 | | | nice pics neph.......great finds......i still have to get around to find some eastern beardies 
cheers
matt
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11-Mar-08, 04:34 PM
|  | Herping Freak! Subscriber | Join Date: Dec-06 Location: mid north coast of NSW Age/Gender: 15 | | | wow awsome pics, looks like you found abit. shame about all the roadkills tho  | | |
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