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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