 Recent Herp Discussion | | | | | | | | Online Users: 145 | | 84 members and 61 guests | | $N@K3$, 1James1, ad, aussie.snakes, azza74, beeman, bella07, bfg23, boconnor, Br3ndo, Bung-Eye, chappo, Cheyne_Jones, CHONDROS, Chrisreptile, Colletts, Danny.Boy, DanTheMan, darkangel, Dave94, Didgeman, Dodie, dogger_009, elapid@, emily84, Emski, Forensick, gillsy, GreatSage, hodges, imported_Varanus, insectovor, itbites, jasontini, jessb, Jonno from ERD, lez1971, luke88, lukeb210, Maestro, MAIA77, mckellar007, Minka, Mooseman, moreliainsanity, MrBredli, mysnakesau, No-two, norris, owcurat, Pking, q2cdis, redcentrerodents, richardsc, rockdragon, Sdaji, ShaneBlack, Shannon, sharyn, shnakey, slivers, snake101, snakeman112, sockbat, solar 17, spud1, swampie, tempest, tenille89, thechong, Timmo, TWENTY B, Veredus, vinspa, VixenBabe, vs380kw, wack_zach, wokka, wood_nymph | |  | 
12-Jan-08, 11:19 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Apr-07 Location: Newcastle, NSW Age/Gender: 17  | | |
Can someone help me identify this skink i found back during the Newie Floods? |
12-Jan-08, 11:19 PM
|  | IrRegular Member Subscriber | Join Date: Oct-06 Location: Melbourne Age/Gender: 17 | | | | im going to take down my post and go with she oak after looking at other pics. |
12-Jan-08, 11:20 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jun-06 Location: CQ | | | | She-oak Skink
__________________
[9:34:59] dpeica: if snakes were meant to be held they'd have handles.
[WFC] Member of the willia6 fan club.
|
12-Jan-08, 11:20 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Sep-06 Location: Sydney Gender:  | | | | looks like a rock skink to me?
__________________
It puts the lotion on its skin, otherwise it gets the hose again |
12-Jan-08, 11:25 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: May-07 Location: Box Hill, NSW Age/Gender: 22 | | | | She-Oak.
__________________
I'm so tough when I go to the beach I kick sand in my own face
|
12-Jan-08, 11:27 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Sep-07 Location: yarra valley Age/Gender: 38 | | | | eastern she oak |
12-Jan-08, 11:50 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Apr-07 Location: Newcastle, NSW Age/Gender: 17 | | | | Yeah thought it was a she-oak,
Nice little skink, got flooded out, was tame as anything and just layed with me |
13-Jan-08, 12:24 AM
|  | Jellybean Club Subscriber | Join Date: Feb-06 Location: Hobbiton, Middle Earth. Gender: | | | They are usually tame for a day or two after capture, ie "capture shock" then will do anything to bite you 
__________________
If you disagree to any of the content of this post, please complain to someone who cares...not me.
|
13-Jan-08, 12:24 AM
| | Subscriber | Join Date: Feb-03 Location: Gosford | | | | She Oak for sure. Saw one today at the Toronto overpass on the Newcastle feeeway. Used to be very common on the Central Coast but these days only seen once in a while. |
13-Jan-08, 01:42 AM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Apr-07 Location: Newcastle, NSW Age/Gender: 17 | | | | well this one was drowning in the paddock (which was waist deep in water at the time) and i saw the ripples and had already caught 3 black bellied swamp snakes, and about 50 grass skinks and other varies skinks that looked the same as grass skinks, i saw the ripples and ran out through the water and caught it, the flooding didnt go down for about a week so i kept it till the paddock was habitable (the kookaburah were having a field day) but even when i let it go it still was reluctant to run away, it stayed near my feet where i placed it till i put it in the long grass for shelter, then it slowly scurried away |
13-Jan-08, 01:48 AM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Sep-07 Location: S.A. Gender: | | |  Sounds like quite a few reptiles survived cos of your kindness. Well done.
__________________ Words are mere bubbles of water, But deeds are drops of GOLD ! |
13-Jan-08, 02:14 AM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Apr-07 Location: Newcastle, NSW Age/Gender: 17 | | | It was quite odd though,
I went to sleep with the paddock being mildy wet
the next morning
Flooded almost right to my house,
I ended up gettin a fair few animals out but let them all go when it was safe  |
13-Jan-08, 03:32 AM
| | Suspended | Join Date: Jul-06 Location: Sydney Gender: | | | nice work
__________________ **click** me for wise words!
| |
|
