While working in the gum trees adjacent to our home I accidentally found this little chap. Skink numbers have gone down since my childhood and we were delighted to think that some might be living here. A friend who is very knowledgable about skinks and geckos identified it as the ‘common skink’. Mice are an enemy of geckos and skinks as they can get ino the same small crevises were they hide. We will be making some kind of protection for the skinks in our garden such as flat rocks or corrigated iron. This skink was quite inactive due to the cold, once they warm up they become active again.
