Unusual or interesting sightings

[crocdoc]

Originally Posted by Farma

Rosenbergs monitors near grafton NSW

You're the third person I've seen make this observation. The first one was a very reliable witness, so it got me thinking that there's something in it, but now that a couple of other people have seen the same thing I'm getting more and more curious about it.

As for the people mentioning red-bellied blacksnakes in urban areas, I've seen a male red-bellied blacksnake at the corner of Kent and King street in downtown Sydney (I suggest the non-Sydneysiders look at a map to see just how centre of town this is). No, it wasn't an escapee from Sydney Wildlife World, either.

A mate who is a herper and a landscape gardener also found a shed skin from a red-bellied blacksnake in the garden of an apartment complex a few doors down from me, in a built up part of Sydney (just over the bridge from the city proper).

In both cases, it seems the blacksnakes were moving along the harbour edges then going inland to investigate.

[krefft]

About 15 years ago I go a call out for a RBBS in the Opera House car park.
I stood around with 6 police for almost 3 hours waiting for the owner to come back to the car. They had tried to pick the drivers side door for almost an hour when the snake first crawled up under it.
A mate was walking around the car killing time and tried the passenger door which turned out to be unlocked, much to the cops embarrassment. The snake had crawled up on top of the radiator. We think it may have come from the Botanic Gardens.
I also had a call out for a Green Tree Snake it a pot plant out side a restaurant on Military Road Mosman

[JasonL]

Alot of Sydney is surrounded by various patches of bushland with swamp areas, esp to the south, I'd suggest that the RBB's are using the drainage for food ect then popping out for some sun only to find themselves a little out of place.

[GSXR_Boy2]

I know a guy who found a Coastal carpet at Arncliffe and i have seen a few years ago in the Royal and at Engadine.

Don't think it is rare but we recently found an Eastern long neck turtle in the city ( Zetland)

Corns at Mac' fields train station ( found by my gf's cousin) and i know a guy that found an albino one near La perouse ( sp? )

[nathanbrisvegas]

just from the past few weeks,

yellow faced whip snake and a blue tongue on walker street in north sydney.

friends finding escapees all the time ie vitticepts in bondi, maccies in bondi junction, jungles in double bay, milksnakes in cronulla etc

range extension on varanus tristis near gympie SEQ

many dirunals active at night ie demansia, ctenotus, varanus and assorted agamids.

cohabitation between many different species ie tristis and assorted geckos under sheet bark aswell as a pale head and a scalaris sharing the same hollow.

cheers
Nath

[Varanaphile]

I have a few pics of a small skink that caught a flying insect bigger than its head.

Also a green free frog in the driveway the night I moved into a new house. It was raining hard all day and after having a very annoying time (keeping stuff dry) this made a nice change to the rest of the day.

Haven't got time to post pics (if I can) but will try soon.

cheers

ok, dunno if this is odd or anything, just out the back for some reason and found a weasel skink at 8:10pm Temps 13*C
also some odd things it did to (or odd to me anyway):
1) flicked tongue constantly for about 4 seconds like a snake.
2) licked face clean (something i thought only geckos and pygopods did
3) when i picked it up its tail wrapped around my finger (something i also thought a skink like this would do) but it was like an accidental thing it held on quite well.
4) was foraging and eyewitness it hunting a wolf spider (i think its odd caue its fair cold where i am atm and it was moving pretty slow then it burst into energy and caught a wolf spider bigger then its head by 3x easy

[Reptile_House]

Not all that unusual but I have live in Wellington for over two years and new that these guys should be here but hadn't seen one. We had been out for a few hours chasing the usual frogs I decided to have a quick look up a side road and saw this little guy sitting on the side of the road.
I was pretty excited, I had wanted to see one, even made up a little Underwoodisaurus millii song that really got on my partners nerves.

The only other unusual thing out this way is that there are no small snakes, apart from the ones i see, everyone else gets to see 2metre eastern brown snakes and monster Rbb and they always get chased or was soooo lucky it was soo close.
I get to see a dozen or so local snakes a year and the max size i have seen is around 4 - 5 foot most are around 3-4 foot.

[SuperForm]

Brisbane River Turtle in the Gold Coast Seaway

Brown Tree Snake eating a King Cricket

BHP attempting to eat what looked like a 3 week old road killed bird at Boulia

[butters]

Whilst out on a night drive I once found a male common Planigale getting amourous with a squashed female in the middle of the road. Her head was so flat it was paper thin. Wasn't perturbed by my prescence at all and the only way I could get it off the road was to drag the dead female to the verge with mr happy attached!!

Beaked geckos about 50k's west of Dalby. Elderi just south of Mount Isa (30 minute drive but thats all I will say). Both I think are range extensions.

[nathanbrisvegas]

Hey Nick,

i too thought that the beakeds outside of dalby were a range extension but after speaking with steve at the museum this was not valid.

nice find with the elderi however

[butters]

So did Steve say how far east Beaked Geckos come?

By the way Nathan I got the burtons you bred from Martin Fingland (he bought it from you) and it double clutched this year (last season rather). Second clutch was 3 eggs. Only records I could find of 3 eggs was from preserved museum specimens.

I only ended up with 3 viable hatchlings in the end ,one from the first and 2 from the second, but that is a definite second generation breeding of them.

Cheers Andrew

[mrkos]

about ten years ago there was a huge diamond looking carpet python dead on the side of the road out near sunshine coast university.Might have been an escapee but it definetely wasnt a coastal.

[Slothhead]

Coming across this, a cat print 70mm front to back and side to side, with the slight impression of the rear foot while doing some field work in the katoomba region.
those with house cats will know that those prints max out around the 3.5-4 cm mark

[Slothhead]

helps if i put the pics on there

[GSXR_Boy2]

Was there any other tracks there at all? If so did you notice approx' how far apart where they? Do you know much about pitch and stride? How close was that? Also what was the weather of the day? Ie wind, cloudy etc please? Thanks!

[bushmaster]

A Swamp snake crawled past a mate while sitting on the sand at Thirroul beach,he had it in a sock when i got out of water after a surf.Driving through Appin in summer after a rain shower,in the space of roughly 100 meters i saw at least 5 dead on road and had to dodge at least 10 adult live long neck tortoises crossing the road.Also 1 night another mate rang me and said he was in the middle of a street in Leumeah,near Campbelltown(Sydney) with a snake in a box that he nearly ran over in his car,i went their to find an underweight 5 foot coastal carpet in the box.