Little Reptiles in December - Brown-snouted Blind Snake, Verreaux's Skink & Copper Tailed Skink

While working outside in the yard, gardening and working on the tractor, we often come across some little reptiles that are accidentally unearthed. This little copper-tailed skink came off second best after coming in contact with the tractor bucket yesterday and was unfortunately too injured to be helped. The Three-clawed worm-skink is the second one we have come across here, this one was found at night on the grass. The Brown-snouted blind snake was also "unearthed" while planting trees. We have come across many different sized blind snakes over the years here, but often they burrow back into the earth so quickly that they are hard to catch to get a photograph of them and thus have gone un-identified. J & B.