Herping at Lightning Ridge (australia)

[RyanH]

We went to Lightning Ridge in April. On the way out we saw lots of road kill including a tiger snake on the way across the Great Dividing Range, near Gloucester, an eastern brown snake near Narrabri and 2 shinglebacks and a central bearded dragon just near Wee Waa plus a live central bearded dragon on a log on the side of the road.

Here is the entrance to Lightning Ridge and the Sunset there

Habitat looked like this

Here is a list of everything I saw at Lightning Ridge (not much as we were there for only 2 nights and it wasn’t that hot as it’s the wrong time of the year)

Geckos

Lots - Tree dtella – Gehyra variegata

Lots - Bynoe’s gecko - Heteronotia binoei, many different colored ones, most had regenerated tails, you may also notice a 22. Bullet in the last photo

Skinks

2 Shingleback – Tiliqua Rugosa

Lots - South-eastern Morethia Skink - Morethia boulengeri

1 Spiny-palmed Shinning-skink - Cryptoblepharus carnabyi (escaped before I could get photos

Monitors

1 Sand monitor - Varanus Gouldii (escaped down a hole before I could get photos)

Elapids

1 Curl snake – Suta Suta

Other animals

Green tree frogs

Fat tailed Dunnarts

Emus

Kangaroos (no pics)

A goat

Cows

Hope you all enjoy, sorry some are bad as I was using my crappy camera but the better ones were taken when I used my dad’s camera

Ryan

 

[DDReptiles]

Cool Trip, wish I could get down and do some herping down there, beautiful landscape.

 

[John Z]

Great Pics! Thanks for sharing, the shingleback is really cool how big was it.

 

[RyanH]

thanks guys, the shingleback was about 30cm long, was the 2nd time to see them alive in the wild for me, so I was stoked when I found two.