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Category: Reptiles

  • Alice Springs Herpetophile

    Alice Springs Herpetophile

    Author Koh Lin â—¦ Someone who love reptiles is known as a “herpetophile”, the word also extends to someone who loves amphibians. A “herpetologist” is someone who studies or has a interest in this group of animals and in scientific… Continue reading

  • Mobile phone shots

    Mobile phone shots

    Author Koh Lin â—¦ Australia has some wonderful creatures both large and small. Just walking down the street, along green verges, open gardens and your local parks provides opportunities to see some Australian fauna. Even the walls on the side… Continue reading

  • Loving baby…

    Loving baby…

    Author Koh Lin â—¦ There is something special seeing juvenile wildlife… We love our babies… Check out other blogs by Koh Lin. Continue reading

  • labour of love… reptiles

    labour of love… reptiles

    Author Koh Lin â—¦ With my labour of love… I have been really lucky to see so many different species of reptiles in the flesh, as well as enjoying the photographs from our many contributors and authors. We thank them… Continue reading

  • Wildlife… a taste of Alice

    Wildlife… a taste of Alice

    Author Koh Lin â—¦ Who hasn’t heard about Alice Springs… it is a wild place… and home to more then just art and culture… it is home to many creatures big and small… Ok… we may not have the biggest… Continue reading

  • What a Wonderful World…

    What a Wonderful World…

    Author Koh Lin â—¦ One of my favourite songs growing up is What a Wonderful World, as sung by Louis Armstrong… the words resonating in my working day and through my life… I see trees of green, red roses too…… Continue reading

  • Such beauty… such perfection

    Such beauty… such perfection

    Author Marianne Broug â—¦ I was so moved this morning, with tears forming… I was looking intently at a Dragonfly and didn’t see this beautiful Shingleback, Tiliqua rugosa only a few feet from where I stood. It’s yellow markings with… Continue reading

  • His head stuck in a can…

    His head stuck in a can…

    Author Gary Taylor â—¦ Well here’s two things I’ve heard about, but in all the time I’ve spent out in the bush I’ve never actually encountered… 😃 So, doin’ our weekly bush run/road trip, whipping down a quiet little country… Continue reading

  • not quite the surf… Lifeguard

    not quite the surf… Lifeguard

    Author Koh Lin â—¦ After my umpteenth rescue, it appeared to me that I was like a surf lifesaver, except without the surfboard, or the surf… ok so there was no beach, and it was just a swimming pool… so… Continue reading

  • Secrets in my garden…

    Secrets in my garden…

    Author Koh Lin â—¦ As a well known phrase from a late 1960’s popular American television sitcom… “I see nothing!” That was me… and I suspect a lot of other people. With the growing interest in the natural world around… Continue reading

  • It’s a jungle out there!

    It’s a jungle out there!

    Author Koh Lin â—¦ Wow… there is excitement plus outside our house… a hive of activity… With the nesting behaviour of the Golden-browed Resin Bees (species Megachile aurifrons), the frantic flitting to and fro of the Masked Bees (Hylaeus sp),… Continue reading