Painted Dragon

[Mark Newton]

Discovered this gravid female one fine morning while camped alongside the beautiful Lake Gairdner in South Australia's arid outback. It was clear what she was about to do, the huge bulges in her abdomen gave away her digging activities. From about 9:30am until late afternoon, 5:30pm or so, she did her business and left absolutely no trace of any excavation, I was amazed.
In shot #4 she had exited the now extensive burrow and headed for the shade of a nearby tree; taking a rest she took little notice of the incessant photographer as by this time she was quite used to the large, lazy herbivore that kept laying alongside her burrow.

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[andyscott]

Fantastic Pics, Great to see.

 

[W.T.BUY]

nice shots!!

 

[channi]

Wow she looks like a different dragon in the last two pics. Nice photographic journalism.

 

[GraftonChic]

nice pics

 

[Daniel_Penrith]

Beautiful pics!! And awesome Lizard!!

 

[bylo]

My painted laid 2 eggs this year and I had one hatch.
The other was a dud

 

[JasonL]

Fantastic shots there.

 

[moloch05]

Mark,
Excellent photos! It is great to capture something like in pics.

Regards,
David

 

[Miss B]

Great photos and what a beautiful little dragon.

 

[venus]

Stunning pics!!

 

[hornet]

very nice mark, must get some of these sometime.

 

[JKretzs613]

Hello

Hello,

Those were very good pics. Nothing like pics from the wild!


Tracie

 

[scorps]

awsome pics