townsville herping- good to visit new home

[ShnakeyGirl]

Well my fiance Jeff (Reptilianguy) and I have been in Townsville for the last 5 days and have seen some awesome herps. We're up here for another couple of days so hopefully we'll get to see some more. Has been a an awesome experience so far and have had a great time, don't have the transport at ready for the herping we want but with a little of Jeff's local knowledge the limited backyarding has been fun...

we have many pics so give me a bit.


Rollingstone- blue phase Green Tree Snake


Coastal Carpet Python


Eastern Dtella

 

[ShnakeyGirl]

Yellow Spot Monitor


Northern Dtella


Lace Monitor


Eastern Blue-Tongue

 

[ShnakeyGirl]

Brahminy Kite


Forest Kingfisher


nesting- Lovely Fairy Wren


Whistling Kite


Wedge Tailed Eagle

 

[ShnakeyGirl]

Scorpian, unknown type


White Bellied Sea Eagle. a distance shot in haze carrying a tarpon, the second with a mangrove jack frame...

thats it so far this trip. tommorrow is maggie island so hopefuly some more encounters there..

 

[itbites]

Some great pics, looks like a lovely area

 

[da_donkey]

wow very nice, thanks

donks

 

[gecko-mad]

awesome!

 

[ReptilianGuy]

yeah it's one of my favourie spots... occasionally the odd salty will pass through, found no identified elapids but we think we encountered some yellow faced whipies while spotlighting a creek for brown trees and keelies but arent to sure of what they we're and had no good photo opps for those 2 sightings but for 9 at nite it was a sweet rush... but yeah good fun all round... may post pics of our trip to maggie island.

 

[ryanharvey1993]

nice lot of pics, your northern dtella looks like an asian house gecko, you did well with the raptors aswell.

 

[Niall]

Great photos!!
I love that place.

Ryan is right, the northern dtella is a Asian house gecko.
The northen dtella does not have 3 or 4 rows of spines going down its tail.

When i went there in July.
We traveled from Port Douglas right up to Cooktown and everywhere we stayed there was Asian house geckos, even in the daintree.

 

[ShnakeyGirl]

Thanks for that guys, we weren't too sure if they were Asian House Geckos or Dtellas.

 

[ReptilianGuy]

hahaha yeah geckos aren't our thing, cheers guys

 

[herpkeeper]

nice pics

cheers HK.

 

[ozziepythons]

Fantastic finds, especially the coastal carpet... but did you see any green tree frogs??? I hear they are very common in Townsville...

 

[ShnakeyGirl]

Fantastic finds, especially the coastal carpet... but did you see any green tree frogs??? I hear they are very common in Townsville...

Everywhere, we got a couple of pics of them, will post when we get back to Melb.

 

[reptilefan95]

Nice pictures! I like the lacie pic, looks like he was having a good climb right ontop of the branches

 

[ReptilianGuy]

Nice pictures! I like the lacie pic, looks like he was having a good climb right ontop of the branches

we've actually got nice pics for our port-folio of it jumping onto another branch... it's quite impressive... but we have no program to personalise the image/s so not to inclined to post it along with many more...
all pics we post are only B grade so everyone can have a squiz at things out there and around them.

thanks for all the replies to.

jeff

 

[lloydy01]

I live in Townsville,

And there are Asian House Geckos running around our house and oustside you cant really go outside without seeing one! Are asian house Geckos Worth anything? Because There is heeps almost too many!. We also have lots of green tree frogs in our garden including white lipped green tree frogs and red-eyed green tree frogs!

 

[garycahill]

You can't legally sell wild caught herps, at least not from Qld.
A permit is required to do so.

 

[lloydy01]

Oh thx for that I wasnt aware there was a rule im not sure if my licence covers it or not I will have to check!