Water Dragons

I planned to go out birding on my local river system hoping to get some good BIF photo's and anything else i came across like snakes, lizards, marsupials etc. I did get a good pelican and Egret photo's but this thread I thought id'e just add the Eastern Water Dragons with the 40-150 pro + teleconverter.
I'll start a new thread for the Australian Pelican

regards,
Vas

excellent documentary quality and nice compositions too!

Thank you Geoffrey

The water dragons pose in some interesting positions and are very territorial but will flee up a tree or in the water when you get too close. They also like chasing my surface lures when fishing.

Hen3ry wrote:

excellent documentary quality and nice compositions too!

While not too similar I think they would be closest to pygmy or short-horned lizards but I have no idea where in Canada these species live

19andrew47 wrote:

Nothing like that here. An interesting set.

Andrew

Soooo, guess you're in Brisbane then.

Great shots.

vass wrote:

While not too similar I think they would be closest to pygmy or short-horned lizards but I have no idea where in Canada these species live

19andrew47 wrote:

Nothing like that here. An interesting set.

Andrew

They look more like our little Thorny Devil.

The Eastern Water Dragons get pretty big (As in metre long sort of big).

Pretty close to the bearded dragon
But for Andrew in Canada I couldn't find anything closer but the horned lizards to where he lives if he even has them in his part of Canada.
Yeah they get pretty large. I regulary encounter them to 80-90cm or so when fishing but most of that length is tail. I had one jump of a tree once and it tried to steal my surface lure from my rod in its holder in kayak. Was a sudden surprise and I was like "what the hell".

The first two and last two in the photo's are of a 70cm specimen. The middle one was about 44cm

Martin.au wrote:

vass wrote:

While not too similar I think they would be closest to pygmy or short-horned lizards but I have no idea where in Canada these species live

19andrew47 wrote:

Nothing like that here. An interesting set.

Andrew

They look more like our little Thorny Devil.

The Eastern Water Dragons get pretty big (As in metre long sort of big).

Guy Parsons wrote:

Good shots of something that looks like a remnant from 200 million years ago.

Both neighbours (in Sydney) have small ponds that have attracted water dragons and they treat us as part of their territory as they wander between the two ponds.

Seen on the ground, on the fence, wandering across my roof (see a head or a long tail hanging over the guttering sometimes) they just wander where they like and are reasonably approachable.

Occasionally I see the newly hatched ones in the yard, amazingly they are just an exact lookalike to the big ones but way way smaller. Cute.

One neighbour was feeding them grapes and one was bold enough to enter his house looking for food if the sliding screen door was left open.

Not seen so often are blue tongue lizards, goannas, various types of snake, bandicoots, wallabies, lyre birds, brush turkeys and all the usual fly-in bird life. They all have attacked or wandered through the garden at times.

Regards........ Guy

A lot of reptiles there. I only get skinks with the odd blue tongue and bearded dragon appear around my little pond.

Guessing Saskatchewan gets the most sun or is the warmest part of Canada.

19andrew47 wrote:

The greater short horned lizards do indeed exist in Canada but in a very small region near the U.S. Canada border in southern Saskatchewan, about half a continent away from me! Thanks for the information.

Andrew