BLUE TONGUE SKINKS

Have a go at 1 of my finds on the weekend a sick mother ,were i release my bobtails , i found her at the dam , and she had bobtail flu ..When i picked her up she gave birth to a still born and this tiny little 90 gram bobtail ..Happy to say i had my gecko catcher ..She is on the mend fingers crossed ..The baby is sooo cute Lucky look how little she is

A winter baby They were so cold . I hate this flu Wrong time to give birth in the freezing 2 degree
nights +
cold & raining

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look at it in the bug catcher ..Oh poor little darling was hungry , had banana on the dash board home with the heater on ..Mum had nothing left to give it ..It was lucky i went up on a day trip..1st time ever to see how the marron are going Got a good haul and a movie and more pics on another camera .

Tiny had the umbilical cord on the trip back was a buzz, they would both have been dead by today..Sunday lunch time i found them, then the heavons opened up they would have got washed into the dam or foxes .






Got a pig Kyle mmm Bacon Someone ripped our massey furgeson tractor off ,its was on blocks to pump water round the dams .they brought a battery and cut the fence on the forrest acsess track and drove it away.Ill.Get around on the bike and hunt em down , follow the tyre marks ..Its a marron farm on 500 achre,s ...Enjoy

well done Ian! I guess you were SUPPOSED to find them!!! That's pretty *darn good luck for the bobbies!

Yere was the first time ive done a day trip Luke , so yere they were both lucky ..It hammered down with rain all the way home 2 hour drive from my joint ..But yere nice find more pics to come .


Good bush tucker . We get a few different types of these in australia jillgies , marron ,
fresh water cray fish ..They can cross miles of land to find the next water hole or dam , river .We got 5 dams full on the farm..They get a really nice blue tail and are preety old coupla hundred million years ..But man do they cook up nice around the camp fire out the bush ..Love it out the bush eating bush tucker Worth a around 30$ a kilo -

Only a baby for my aqurium but they get really big MMMM

Way to go Ian!

What an adorable little fellow.

Is there any way to tell if the mum is one that you had released previously? I was curious if you tag them in any way or anything to keep a record of them.

Beautiful black tongue!

How lucky indeed! Hope they make it

Iam working on some sort of perminent thing ..I do use a deep purple reptile ink yes Shelle , And paint under ther back legs and it will only stay until there next shed , ive found them a year later as i do there back feet pads and back nails...This ink is impossible to wash off unless you have special stuff to remove it .No ive not seen her mum before we also found die back on the farm another fungal diesese brought in on car tyres , and it kills all the big tree,s ..I got a sample of it see if we can stop it ..There is 500 pristine achre,s of malley tree,s , salmon gums ghost gums & wondoo i think its the hardest wood on earth .So its killing the tree,s dam it .

Awww... what a great "save" and a beautiful baby, too! Thanks for the pics! Good luck rehab'ing Mom, as well.

Great job as usual, Ian.

Shellyjean wrote:Way to go Ian!

What an adorable little fellow.

Is there any way to tell if the mum is one that you had released previously? I was curious if you tag them in any way or anything to keep a record of them.

Fair play to you mate, I was wondering the same if you get to see/recognise any old releases when you revisit an area

That's only a baby crayfish??? That's huge compared to what we have around here. Do they taste like lobster? Mmmmmmm...

Such a cute little baby! Great job. That baby's so lucky. Keep up the pictures. And make sure to pic an awsome name.

I used to keepsome blue yabbies a couple years back but it's been a long time i would love to be able to do what you do!!

Good ol' Ian, lookin' for bush shrimp just to find more poor souls to look after. A sticker on the head, a bit of dashboard banana, a few prayers, not to mention starting up the boiling water for the meal. I could fill up on those "crawdads," as we call them here. Well done, my friend.

KW

Hehehe Kyle that is a wee tiny baby Marron ,there a fresh water crayfish ..I call em cror fish He is a cacca meaning under size in slang under size chuckem back ..Man living on rotting eucaliptus leaves old rotting wood in fresh water creeks .The flesh is heavon sent .They get around a kilo .. Boil for 5 mins out the bush under the stars by a camp fire.. Then tongue in with nice ding bread .. Alot of pepper viniga
r and really warm fresh bread ..different than salt water crays this flesh insn,t chewy just mmmm melts in the mouth. After a dozen wash down with a with bourben a coldy = beer & Bobtail on ya shoulder ..And a blue heeler ozzie catle dog

Kyle When i get to long in the tooth , iam drawing up my blue print 1340 cc Harley motor With those quad bike tyre,s 4wd , toilet , 2 speed power glide auto. Not bad for my 1st drawings it will have a bobtail cage on the back ..HA HA HA

DeadEye wrote:Hehehe Kyle that is a wee tiny baby Marron ,there a fresh water crayfish ..I call em cror fish He is a cacca meaning under size in slang under size chuckem back ..Man living on rotting eucaliptus leaves old rotting wood in fresh water creeks .The flesh is heavon sent .They get around a kilo .. Boil for 5 mins out the bush under the stars by a camp fire.. Then tongue in with nice ding bread .. Alot of pepper viniga
r and really warm fresh bread ..different than salt water crays this flesh insn,t chewy just mmmm melts in the mouth. After a dozen wash down with a with bourben a coldy = beer & Bobtail on ya shoulder ..And a blue heeler ozzie catle dog

Kyle When i get to long in the tooth , iam drawing up my blue print 1340 cc Harley motor With those quad bike tyre,s 4wd , toilet , 2 speed power glide auto. Not bad for my 1st drawings it will have a bobtail cage on the back ..HA HA HA

Good one Ian, that really is a porta potty, perfect for runs on the run

Leigh, you kill me, man.

Really hear that thunder in the morning after a night on the booze and pizza .. hahah lol guys