Red John

[Bastien Comment]

15.08.2011

Oh yes!! Finally, my friend Yannick has managed to take pictures of the beautiful red male asp viper from one of our best spots. He found him at around 4 pm, 2 hours after it had rained. It's a specimen I had already seen in the begining of the year and Yannick had also seen him some time ago but he escaped very fast. Unfortunately, I didn't take part in this herping session because I was working but I hope you'll enjoy the pictures as much as I did

[Jürgen Gebhart]

This Red John is a very nice one, I think Patrick Jane will like him!

[Guillaume Gomard]

Really nice coloration, it makes me think of the kind of red vipers you can encounter in some part of the Savoie Region, France.

[Bastien Comment]

Wow, there will be more to come one day. I've received a message from Yannick (he's still on holidays the poor student and I'm still stuck at work...) and this morning, he has seen a second red indivudal but with lighter colours than this one. He hasn't been able to take a picture so I hope we'll be able to do it before the end of the year.

@ Jürgen: Actually, it's Patrick Jane himself who introduced me to this beauty

@ Guillaume: Yeah I also remember when I was a kid (about 20 years ago...) I had made a fieldherping week-end in the Franches-Comté and we had seen many different variations of asp vipers including some red and some yellow specimen! Anyway, if you want to have a chance to see Red John, let me know next time you come near Lausanne

[Grégoire Meier]

Very nice!