The magic of Christmas Eve was another stunning male Atlas moth. My 5th Atlas of the week. Finding these magnificent magical moths means so much to me.

I picked up a GoPro this week to see how I can use it for some wildlife work. This is my first ever recording on an action cam. Needs some work, but not the worst start. Filming blind and full stretch of a 4’ GoPro selfie stick. Juvenile Gold-ringed cat snake.

Tonight’s magical find - the biggest moth species on the planet and this was a particularly large female. I can’t tell you what it means to me to find these incredible creatures on the green edges of city state Singapore.

I found only my second ever Rhinoceros Frog (Limnonectes plicatellus). “Rhinoceros? Where is the horn?” I hear you ask. The females don’t have the horn🦏

I frequently find these stunning Gold-ringed cat snakes on my night walks, but last night I found this really small juvenile. I usually find these big guys and gals

Asian Toad (Duttaphrynus melanostictus) - Warm rainy monsoon nights in Singapore. Get a pond!

Pink-headed Reed Snake (Calamaria schlegeli). I don’t see these very often. They live underground and surface on rainy nights. They feed on worms and other inverts. Totally harmless to humans despite mimicking one of the most venomous snakes on the planet

I don’t know how these chubby little Banded Bullfrogs climb trees. Those short little legs aren’t designed for it. I think the sight of a column of tasty ants crawling up the trunk is too tempting. Force of will.

A Four-lined Tree Frog (Polypedates leucomystax) exploring Singapore suburbia at night, as indeed was I

Gorgeous White-spotted Slug Snake. This little beauty is no bigger than a kids shoelace

White-spotted slug snakes love rainy night. This guy was out exploring the edges of suburbia.

I spotted a leucistic Javan myna scrounging for crumbs around an open restaurant. You can see what the normal black/grey version looks like in the second photo.

No matter how much I fly, I’m addicted to the airplane window. So much beauty 🌏

In urban parks around the world, you sit down to eat and the pigeons or seagulls appear. Hold my beer says Australia. In Brisbane it is dragons 🐉 aka Eastern Water dragons

The mighty Sunda King Cobra hunting along a track through the Singapore mangroves. It passed by humans young and old without slightest bit of interest. Deadly is not always dangerous.

The most beautiful thing I’ve seen this week. I was standing on the edge of a large reservoir at night when this huge, elegant, graceful Gold-ringed cat snake came gliding out of the darkness

Loving the pattern of this huntsman spider on the waves and swirls of the bark

Fascinating Orb weaver in Brisbane. Hairy and harmless. So interesting to zoom in on for a close up.

Tiny baby male Wagler’s Pit Viper with Lego stormtrooper keychain for scale.

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Big sign for 2 little monkeys 😌

White-faced heron plucking crustaceans from the wall in Sydney harbour.

I found a baby Rainbow lorikeet on the floor. It couldn’t fly. I gave it a little help to get off the ground. Absolutely beautiful, curious and gentle. Happy to get it into a tree. Thread for the poor guy on the ground…

Everyone should hug like this Koala in Brisbane hugs. Absolute beauty at Whites Hill Reserve, Brisbane. Amazing to have a healthy population in a relatively small suburban park.

This is what intimidation looks like 😅 Australian white ibis just love lunchtime

One cheeky bird trying to wreck my pair of allbirds. Well they are sustainable and made from natural materials. I guess they tasted good!

A fat adult Cane toad showing off its prodigious poison packed parotoid gland.

A Magpie-lark in a Sydney park gathering feathers to line her nest. I love their diamond eye

Signs of spring in the southern hemisphere. Goslings in the park under mother’s watchful blue eye

A Sulphur-crested cockatoo in Sydney. This guy was one of a large group that noisily arrived in the suburb of Wooloomooloo in Sydney. Yep, that’s an actual place.

A Laughing kookaburra in flight in the Sydney Botanic Gardens

The gorgeous watchful eye of a Pacific Black Duck in Sydney, Australia park

Just a pair of Masked Lapwings

Masked Lapwing - it’s fascinating to me how the blank ink of the pupil bleeds into the butter yellow of the iris

A pair of Masked lapwings hanging out at one of the most iconic man-made structures on earth. You know what it is?

Check out this! I found a little family of Tawny frogmouths 🤩 so cute. Despite appearances, these are not owls.

A preening pelican in the park - Australian pelican in an urban Sydney park.

How cute is this Koala in relax mode in a tree in Brisbane?

Is this the best cup of coffee ever? I swear that I didn’t know that the star of the show was there until I sat down. Made the eyes open wide for sure! 👀

I’m working in Brisbane this week. I went for a drive on a rainy night and had to pull over and rescue this beauty of a Carpet Python from the middle of the road.

Lives hanging by a thread

A fresh baby female Wagler’s Pit Viper hanging out alongside a suburban road. Spicy little noodle 🌶️

The freckled face of a juvenile Oriental Whip Snake. It will be fluorescent green in a few months.

A Painted Bronzeback pretending to be a twig. He thought that I wouldn’t see him if he stayed very still

Unexpected find when night walking. 2 Motoro stingrays (Potamotrygon motoro) in a narrow, shallow drain no more than 20cm (8”) wide. A beautiful and fascinating fish. The invasive Motoro is native to the Amazon River but was released here in Singapore by hobbyists.

A Bamboo Viper (Trimeresurus albolabris) alongside a road on a drizzly Hong Kong night. A little over exposed, but in my defence, I had trucks rumbling along the road, the viper was in half shadow, and I had a large curious cow behind me. Snap and go!

I feel seen! Bamboo Pit Viper on the move on a drizzly night in Hong Kong

Had to make a road rescue today in Hong Kong. A motorcycle just missed this gorgeous Bamboo Pit Viper

An endangered baby Long-tailed Macaque in the safety of mother’s warm embrace. Pure innocence and beauty.