BLUE TONGUE SKINKS

Here is some pics of local wild bluetongues,we get both the easterns and blotched ones here,
Also say hi to Ellen my daughter who loves to come with me on the catch and release of herps.

Fantastic! Look at those shots!

Very nice Eastern Looks like you daughter is having a great time.

WOW! awsome! you guys are so lucky! so many nice tongue shots!

I love the third picture!!!!

f.C

nice easterns

great close up and personals mate.

so many awesome tongue shots!! love the eighth shot-gorgeous!

Some terrific photos in that lot sssssssssssssssnakeman! Havent got those on aussie pythons SSSSSnakeman theyd be too tight to pay for them

Thanks guys, Hope you all have had a great xmas,,
Colin, I dont know what that means but thanks anyway,,i think.
Will post more of them as they show up, people always see these and think they are snakes for some reason.
Then i called out to rescue them,lol.

Sorry ssssnakeman i just worked out how to use the multiple bannanas

Here are some pics of a few of the reptiles that share the
environment with our local easterns and blotchies here on the
Mornington peninsula in Victoria.

They dont really compete with each other
for food but bluetongues will often make a meal out of a baby tiger snake or copperhead.

Also im sure many young blueis have been
snapped up by hungry snakes.

Anyway these are the animals i have removed from peoples properties and relocated to safer areas.
Tigersnakes (notechis scutatus)

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And a few copperheads,
Austrelaps supurbus these are probably the most common in my area.

Tigers stuck in birdnet.
A common occurence when this vil stuff is used improperly

Copperheads in cans.I have been called to two this summer already.

Pretty snake, stupid cans. Were the snakes hurt? Good job with the rescues!

Ah common names. I was expecting an Agkistrodon contortrix.




Those are US copperheads.

Okay, so I wasn't crazy! I was looking up copperheads because that one didn't look like what I remember... US ones are dangerous, correct? How about the Aus ones?

Well, they are venomous (the US ones), but they are not normally lethal. Some people might not even need to go to the hospital. However, if it envenomates you, you are gonna be hurting. They are vipers, Viperidae, and are in the same genus, Agkistrodon, as the cottonmouth, which is highly venomous, and deadly.


Aus ones are elapids if I remember correctly, and I would never want to be bitten by any elapid.