Carlos & Siran Posted April 3, 2010 Report Share Posted April 3, 2010 I took Connagh for walk yesterday to get him away from the bolocks box for 5 mins. We found a nice wee spot not far from the house near the bush, and I asked him if he wanted to look for bugs and stuff, and being a boy he was more than happy with that Idea. We found crickets, and spiders and all the typical stuff, but after lifting a particularly large log I spotted a what I thought was a bush worm trashing about like they do, but then I noticed legs and I realized it was a skink. But it wasn't a copper, it was thin like a fairly robust worm, and a pale maroon colour, unfortunately it got away. I searched under another log nearby and found several coppers instead. I've looked on Google by I can't find any pics of our other skinks so I'm not sure what it may have been. I'm no expert but I'm sure it wasn't just a variation of a copper, it was much thinner and quite long, and I can't be sure but I think it's colour was paler around it's head. Does anyone have any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livingart Posted April 3, 2010 Report Share Posted April 3, 2010 maybe a common skink just done a partial skin shed the northland skink presumed extinct was fairly dark and thin bodied, up to 350mm nz skinks can exist in small areas or pockets of bush with very small gene pools Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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