I was out at Cherbourg (Qld, Australia, NOT France) today and found some critters.
Some form of quite pretty skink
A Double-barred Finch
A Brown Honeyeater
An Australian Figbird (female)
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Award for the best Side-Eye, goes to this little skink I found on the bottom step today.
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Gently evicting a tiny lizard from our rental house. They were very chill about it.
I don't typically do adopts/design commissions (they never sell and I'm not confident otherwise), but I participated in a mystery egg adopt event in a server i'm in. You had to make an egg and something to hatch from it and this was my fella!
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I spotted lizards in the garden during a break in the rain so I got my Proper Camera and Long Lens out and did a photo shoot session with the 3-legged water skink, who was a very obliging model.
Its tail continues to regrow, but seems to be coming in with a bit of a kink at the transition. In lizards that can drop and regrow their tail the regrown tails always do look different, often having different colouration and lacking pattern, and they are usually shorter and stubbier than the original.
It seems like most of the adult water skinks that I see have a regrown tail. Being a medium sized lizard in a world full of birds and cats can be tough.
This little skink turned up in our dining room this evening, so I scooped them up and released them outside. I'm fairly sure this is a Weasel Skink (Saproscinus mustelinus), and I'm also fairly sure I've had to do exactly the same thing with a skink of the same species that appeared in the same room before.
An unusually chilled-out White's skink, Liopholis whitii. This little guy allowed me to get close enough to get a decent shot with my Olympus 60mm lens.
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When I was done with the gardening I saw the three-legged water skink, along with a four legged companion, checking out the small blue plastic plate that I used to feed them 4 weeks ago. They clearly remembered that last time the big human made an awful racket in the yard dog food appeared on that blue plate afterwards, and so as soon as I sat down they came out of hiding to check the plate.
Not wanting to leave them disappointed I went inside to get them something, and returned with some canned superworms. The two of them made a feast of those, and even had a Lady & the Tramp moment when they both tried to eat the same one.
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#NewSpecies!
New skink from #vietnam just came by:
Scincella truongi
Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C0225AAA-E788-51A0-ACF6-C1E1B2D183E9
Publication: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1226.139655
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It's not the greatest pic since the camera in my four year old phone is not the best when used at extreme zoom, but I thought you'd like to see this little #skink, photographed sunning itself this morning as I cleaned the filter for our septic system.
His camouflage is less effective when he's on the Australian animals doona cover.
One of the Eastern Water Skinks in my back yard has been having a tough time of it. Not only has it lost its right rear leg at some point, but it's also recently lost its tail (it's a little hard to see in the photo, but its tail does *not* extend under that white box).
The missing limb looks like an old, fully healed injury so they must have been managing OK as a tripod, and the tail will regrow, but nonetheless losing it would be a setback. I left some food and water out near their hiding spot to help them out a bit.
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One of my first photos of Jerry and one of my most recent ones, with my hand for scale in both.
In the first photo he was 12 weeks old and 33 cm long, in the second he was 4 years, 2 months old and 51 cm long. He'd done most of his growing by his first birthday.
Yesterday was Jerry's Gotcha Day, 4 years exactly since we brought him home from the lizard breeder we bought him from.
I have the date marked in my calendar in part because that also means it's time to change the tube in his UV-B lamp, which he needs in order to ensure he gets enough vitamin D. The output of these tubes declines with time and they need to be periodically replaced, and for the brand I use the manufacturer recommends doing so every 12 months.
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I got nerd-sniped into trying to measure the actual length of my wiggly lizard by measuring along his spine in Inkscape.
Apparently him not being quite straight made less than 1 cm of difference, and my best estimate for his length is 50.8 cm.
Measuring the lizard is difficult as he will never lie still while stretched out straight for me. I managed to get pretty close here, though. Looks like he is at least 50 cm long, probably 51-52 cm if he were completely straightened out.
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I was very happy yesterday when the scaly sausage decided to crawl out of his enclosure onto my arm of his own accord. That happiness was tempered not long afterwards when he peed on my shoulder.
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Jerry has been hiding a lot lately, but can be tempted out of his log with a blueberry.
