Hi,
This is my first herping post! I don't know if it's strictly "field" herping because I didn't actually have to go anywhere, and also my Complete Guide to Reptiles of Australia is still lost in a box somewhere, but hey. I last lived in inner-city Melbourne and geckoes and frogs, however unidentified, make me excited.
Or frog, to be precise. This fellow sat on the exterior window sill for a couple of nights soon after I first arrived:
Please tell me he's not a cane toad.
Geckoes are plentiful. I've got two kinds here that I can discern; either that or one is some kind of albino mutation:
I love my Gecko Guard because if they weren't here I'd hate to think how many insects I'd be beating out of my hair.
About five days ago I noticed a couple of baby geckoes running around:
I didn't see them for a couple of days and I thought they'd encountered foul play. (I did see one running past Zephyr's enclosure a couple of times - eeeeek!) Then I found one hiding under the Chux. It gave me a startled look and hurried off to hide behind the sponge instead:
In the first picture you can see how tiny he or she is. That silver thing to the right is part of my water filter and attaches to a standard tap. She's about 4 centimetres long and, in that shot at least, reminds me of a tadpole with her big head and tapering tail. It's the perspective.
Assuming I'm seeing the same baby, she keeps disappearing and showing up at random moments. This afternoon, at about 4 pm, I was working at my completely disorganised desk when she shot out from underneath some rubbish and made her way to the wall. I still see her passing Zephyr's enclosure, with apparently no idea what lurks inside.
Something I didn't know about geckoes: they jump. I haven't got a photo of that yet.
This is my first herping post! I don't know if it's strictly "field" herping because I didn't actually have to go anywhere, and also my Complete Guide to Reptiles of Australia is still lost in a box somewhere, but hey. I last lived in inner-city Melbourne and geckoes and frogs, however unidentified, make me excited.
Or frog, to be precise. This fellow sat on the exterior window sill for a couple of nights soon after I first arrived:
Please tell me he's not a cane toad.
Geckoes are plentiful. I've got two kinds here that I can discern; either that or one is some kind of albino mutation:
I love my Gecko Guard because if they weren't here I'd hate to think how many insects I'd be beating out of my hair.
About five days ago I noticed a couple of baby geckoes running around:
I didn't see them for a couple of days and I thought they'd encountered foul play. (I did see one running past Zephyr's enclosure a couple of times - eeeeek!) Then I found one hiding under the Chux. It gave me a startled look and hurried off to hide behind the sponge instead:
In the first picture you can see how tiny he or she is. That silver thing to the right is part of my water filter and attaches to a standard tap. She's about 4 centimetres long and, in that shot at least, reminds me of a tadpole with her big head and tapering tail. It's the perspective.
Assuming I'm seeing the same baby, she keeps disappearing and showing up at random moments. This afternoon, at about 4 pm, I was working at my completely disorganised desk when she shot out from underneath some rubbish and made her way to the wall. I still see her passing Zephyr's enclosure, with apparently no idea what lurks inside.
Something I didn't know about geckoes: they jump. I haven't got a photo of that yet.
