The first birding trip to the Cue area this year was with my cousin, a few weeks before Easter . The weather had cooled down, but the autumn days were very warm (30+) and reptiles were still moving about. Here are some of the reptiles we recorded between Paynes Find and Cue (photos by Fred Coles).
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| Yellow-spotted Monitor (Varanus panoptes) |
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| A beautiful big adult monitor |
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| Lozenge-marked Dragon (Ctenophorus scutulatus). Mostly seen running along the ground in the mulga woodlands. |
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| Is this a scutulatus? Must be, but he was found hiding deep in a dead tree stump at Paynes Find. |
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| And the colours were intense. |
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| One of the common geckos in the area. A Gehyra variegata. |
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| A wonderful Broad-banded Sand-swimmer (Eremiascincus richardsonii), found at Nallan Station. |
Such beauties, even the monitors!
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