Melbourne = underratted DUW

[gus11]

I am currently down in Vic to see the family and celebrate my sisters 21st. since its been a few years i decided i'd best make the most of it and find some herps!
Thankfully i was able to be shown around to see some herps and i was more than excited by what i have found the past 3 days. as i've never herped melbourne almost everything was new with only a few species overlapping with north qld.

On to what we found
egernia whitii

white lipped snake

eastern blue tongue

blotched blue tongue

lymnodynastyes tasmanensis

parasuta flagellum, when scared they curl into a ball

nephurus milii

delma impar in 2 color phases

spade foots

morethia boulengeri

lerista bougainvillii juvenile

adult

pseudomoia entrecasteauxii

niveoscincus metallicus

egernia coverntryii

aprasia parapulchella

crinea significana

Pobblebonk frogs

litoria ewingi

litoria pearoni (i cant remember)

forgot the name of this one

we also managed to see these but i didnt get photos. i could have cried as i watched the raniformis swim away...
ctenotus robustus
litoria raniformis

i also missed a lot of skinks along the yarra that were a bit quick for me to get photos or ID.
I'm still yet to find a tiger or copperhead but i still have two more days! To rub it in they even advertise that snakes are abundant in some areas...

just to finish off not a reptile but a funny little bird, the fairy penguin

Hope there is some tigers and copperhead shots to come
Gus

 

[dottyback]

Great Photo's Angus! 10/10

 

[Dotora]

Great photos

 

[itbites]

Fantastic finds & the pictures are lovely! Thanks for sharing

 

[chrisso81]

Awesome! Great pics of some nice finds, I like that second phase of the impar. I had a little L ewingi on the porch just the other night too.

 

[GTsteve]

Wow the red tailed skinky thing is awesome! What a colour!

 

[jordo]

Nice pics mate, I'm very sorry I couldn't come out with you now, you cleaned up!

 

[trader]

Great photos, glad you are enjoying the herping in Victoria!

It would have been a great night for you to join us at the VHS meeting tonight! Great talks and great auction with lots of reptiles being auctioned as well as lots of products, books, magazines etc! The free pizza and refreshments did not go astray either! Enjoy your stay!

 

[Slats]

Well done, great effort!!

 

[mike72]

just out of interest, where did you see the delma impar? Were the two colour phases found in the same locality?

 

[eipper]

Well Done Angus

Cheers,
Scott

 

[spanna_spamload]

good gus good

 

[froggyboy86]

Great photos, you sure saw a variety of herps. Bugger about the raniformis!

Aaron

 

[redbellybite]

BAHHHHHAHA when I read your heading ..I thought oh Melbourne must be having a hard time getting RATS!! underratted.....then when I saw your lovely pics realised you meant under rated

 

[Snake Catcher Victoria]

Ha Nat, great pics Angus, well done spotting all these critters.

 

[saratoga]

great post and fotos Angus.

How far out of melbourne were you ranging on your trips to find all these?

I'm surpised you found so much but that Tigers and Copperheads still elude you.

cheers

Greg

 

[Stevo2]

Beautiful finds Angus - I spent 24 years in Melbourne and only ever saw about 1/2 of them!! Noice.. lol.

 

[I-Snake_2.0]

Fantastic pics Gus - great job.
As a complete noob question (and as someone who lives in Melbourne) where did you find these little lovely's ??

Wes

 

[gus11]

Trader, i forgot to even look if there was a meeting on whilst i was down. last time i was down i came to steve wilsons talk, which i quite enjoyed.

mike72, I was shown around by a friend so i can't give out any locations for things, and to be honest we went to quite a few places and most of the time i had no idea where we were. The two delmas were found within a few meters of each other.

froggyboy86, i was devastated about the raniformis. I had no idea how pretty they were, and the one we found was beautiful.

saratoga, i was suprised, as was the person who took me around that we didnt find any tigers or copperheads, but that changed today when we found a beautiful little tiger snake!! i'll post photos soon. i know we were within a few hours of melbourne but as i said to mike72 i'm not really sure where we were.

Wes, as i've said just above i'm not to sure where we were when we found these things.

So excited about the tiger today, pics will be up soon!

Gus

 

[gus11]

Today, the hunter for tigers continued, quickly a tiger was spotted but it quickly vanished into the grass...so close. 5 eastern blue tongues were found

Then our luck changed. Thankfully a friend who previously had shown me around was able to spot a tiger! this one was slightly more cooperative and put on a nice display.

To end the day we came across another little whip!

Gus