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Nicholas and I stopped for a single night at Gundabooka National Park near the outback town of Bourke, NSW. I visited the park in January and February of this year but never had good conditions for exploring the red sands at night. On this visit, the temperature was warm and it was dark with only a quarter moon.
We arrived in the early evening and it was too dark to take habitat photographs. Here are a few habitat shots that I took at the start of the year.
We found a single Eastern Stone Gecko (Diplodactylus vittatus). I think that it was a very nicely coloured gecko. It was too bad that it did not have its original tail.
We found several Prickly (Bynoe's) Geckos (Heteronotia binoei). These long-legged geckos were the fastest geckos that we encountered on the trip.
At first, I though that this Beaked Gecko (Rhynchoedura ornata) was much redder than those that I found elsewhere on the trip. I soon discovered, however, that the gecko was coated with fine red dust. Beneath the dust was a normally coloured gecko.
We also saw several Common Dtellas (Gehyra variegata) but we did not take any photos of them.
Nicholas and I were quite excited to find two beautiful Ringed Brown Snakes (Pseudonaja modesta). These are the smallest member of the genus and are not considered dangerous unlike their larger relatives such as Gwardars, Dugites and Eastern Browns. These were fast moving snakes and I would imagine that they were hunting geckos.
We also saw two Red-naped Snakes (Furina diadema). I think that there are nice looking little elapids.
Well, that concludes my reports from the Windorah trip. I am planning on another trip to Western Australia in February so I hopefully will have more photographs to share.
Regards,
David
We arrived in the early evening and it was too dark to take habitat photographs. Here are a few habitat shots that I took at the start of the year.
We found a single Eastern Stone Gecko (Diplodactylus vittatus). I think that it was a very nicely coloured gecko. It was too bad that it did not have its original tail.
We found several Prickly (Bynoe's) Geckos (Heteronotia binoei). These long-legged geckos were the fastest geckos that we encountered on the trip.
At first, I though that this Beaked Gecko (Rhynchoedura ornata) was much redder than those that I found elsewhere on the trip. I soon discovered, however, that the gecko was coated with fine red dust. Beneath the dust was a normally coloured gecko.
We also saw several Common Dtellas (Gehyra variegata) but we did not take any photos of them.
Nicholas and I were quite excited to find two beautiful Ringed Brown Snakes (Pseudonaja modesta). These are the smallest member of the genus and are not considered dangerous unlike their larger relatives such as Gwardars, Dugites and Eastern Browns. These were fast moving snakes and I would imagine that they were hunting geckos.
We also saw two Red-naped Snakes (Furina diadema). I think that there are nice looking little elapids.
Well, that concludes my reports from the Windorah trip. I am planning on another trip to Western Australia in February so I hopefully will have more photographs to share.
Regards,
David
