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This young Tiger was only a couple of feet long, and had the paler, brighter colouration that's typical of juveniles. It's very unusual to find a T...

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At the edge of the river I heard lots of movement up in a nearby tree. When I went to investigate I was surprised to see this large and very colour...

The fifth Tiger Snake I've found while walking along the Yarra Boulevard footpath this summer. There's quite a healthy population of them along Mel...

These Grey-headed Flying Foxes are among the tens of thousands at the colony in Yarra Bend Park in the Melbourne suburb of Kew. They skim the water...

These beautiful large lizards are native to the Gippsland region east of Melbourne, but they've been introduced to a stretch of the Yarra River in ...

This immature bird hasn't yet acquired the beautiful rufous plumage of an adult. Young ones like this are quite well camouflagued, which is probabl...

Whoohoo, my eleventh Tiger Snake for the season! The eight of them that I've managed to film are all on Youtube now.

More often than not I find th...

The fastest animal in the world and a formidable predator with powerful talons. This one has caught a rainbow lorikeet and is tearing it apart with...

Jack Jumpers are a species of bull ant, smaller than most others but very aggressive (especially around their nest) and they have an excruciatingly...

I have no idea what this snake's doing. It seems to be unaware of my presence (only the top of my head is visible to it and I'm downwind of it on a...

This Western Brown Snake didn't like being followed with the camera .... after all it was only trying to get away from me and I was much too close....

Tiger Snakes occasionally hunt in trees up to a height of around 25 feet, usually searching for fledgling birds. This one was probably hunting for ...

Well they ain't called Butcherbirds for nothing! You'll notice that the bird never actually ate the skink but rather it staked it onto a tree branc...

Snakes shed their skins regularly, and they pull the discarded skin inside out in the process of shedding it. The eye scales are beautifully transp...

This is the sixth Tiger Snake I've found this season, and like a couple of the others he was right next to the footpath at the top of the slope lea...

I filmed this snake only an hour or two before uploading the video to Youtube. It's the seventh Tiger Snake I've found this season and like a few o...

This is a compilation of snippets of the same snake as in my 'Tiger Snake II' video, all taken in late 2011. This snake's been living in crevices i...

As far as I know, Marbled Geckos are the only Geckos found this far south in Victoria. They're rarely seen, not because they're rare but because th...

Spider Wasps, also known as Pepsis Wasps or Tarantula Hawks, are known for their excruciatingly painful stings. They paralyse large spiders (with t...

I came across this largish adult Tiger Snake while walking along the Yarra Boulevard in suburban Melbourne. I filmed it on several different days, ...

Bull ants are one of the largest ants in the world, and extremely common in southern Australia.

You can tell that the two bull ants in this video ...

This is the same baby snake as in my Eastern Tiger Snake IV video. I found it at the edge of a small billabong beside the Yarra River in suburban M...

Filmed in Yarra Bend Park in the suburb of Kew, Melbourne, Australia. All this footage is of the same Tiger Snake, filmed on several different days...

This baby Tiger Snake was probably only about a foot long but it's a perfect scale model of an adult. I found it at the edge of a small wetland are...

After I filmed this guy and put my camera away, he decided I'd been standing too close for too long and threw a bit of a tantrum, putting on a cobr...

While walking through a park in suburban Melbourne with the sun in my eyes I found myself being inexplicably pushed backwards, then feeling the tig...

Just a handful of the fifty thousand or so fruit bats in the colony along the banks of the Yarra River in the inner eastern Melbourne suburb of Kew...