Skinks are one of my favourite creatures. Here are some photos I took at the weekend with the Nikon D3000.
I expect these are the common Garden Skink. One kindly posed for me while I steadied the camera on a piece of wood. The others skurried into the wood pile.
Thanks for looking.
Christine R 
Hi Christine, I can’t say I like skinks, I think I’ve never seen you around here. But your photos are great. I’m cleaning up my blog, so deleting lots of people I follow, it’s easier to delete everyone and them follow back the important ones. So don’t be surprised when you see I’m following you again! 🙂
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I see your blog has a new look, as has mine. I’m so pleased you followed me again despite my bad visiting record! You probably wouldn’t get skinks like this near you. They are common to Australia, and New Zealand I think, and there are a few in India and in other odd spots around the world.
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Yes, I changed few things a little bit, and yours are great, love all the photos. It’s good we don’t have skinks around here, I think I’d be scared to be close to them. 🙂
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I have to admit I almost went off skinks when I saw them close-up like this! I’ll come by your blog tomorrow, Elizabeth.
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Looks like a snake with legs a little. Great shot!
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Thanks for commenting, Tony. I nearly got turned off them when I saw how snakey they look up this close! Some of the bigger ones are mistaken for snakes because their legs are so tiny.
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My favourite thing about them is they eat all the nasty garden bugs & slimy creepy crawlies. My m-i-l hates any kind of lizards, reckons they predict a death in the family, but she will quite happily pick up something crawling with red-backs
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Gosh, skinks are around everywhere! I was surprise to learn that the blue-tongue belongs to the skink family.
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I’ve never heard of a skink and the description of snake-y thing with legs is a good one. I’d be just as happy to never see one!
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I’ve always thought they were cute until I took these up close photos. As kids, we would try to catch them but they’re fast.
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{shudder}
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LOVE the skink that posed for you – are you a bit of a skink whisperer?
ha!
either way, the photos are such a high quality too – the bit of teal or blue can be seen. very cool creature….
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Lol, I think he must have been cold and just didn’t want to get out of the sun. I was surprised at the extra colour, too. I have the Nikon set on the hghest quality image – most of them get deleted anyhow. But I get some lucky gems now and then!
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