Happy Herp Weekend

[Andre Schmid]

Thanks

Andre

[Andre Schmid]

Hi everyone,

here some shoots from the last weeks.

Vipera berus (in Black Forest)

In situ

In situ

Vipera berus in habitat

Coronella austriaca

Habitat

Habitat of Coronella austriaca, Natrix natrix, Anguis fragilis, Lacerta agilis and Bufo bufo

Anguis fragilis

[Vlad Cioflec]

Definitely one of the coolest shots i`ve seen in quite a while now ! Great job. (Man i hope i`ll see a live black adder in this lifetime...)

[Aleksandar Simovic]

Really nice shots

Vlad, i saw 2 black berus in one day

[Andre Schmid]

Thanks

[Andre Schmid]

In the last few month I spend not much time the adders here in the black forest so I decide today to go looking whats going on there.

I was arriving at 9.45 am and found the first 3 adders in 20 min, 2 gravid females and in my opinion one male. One hour later I found another gravid female. After I made a lot of situ shoots of the animals I went to a Terrain maybe 100m near my main habitat for adders to look if I find there also something, after last year I found there 2 adult adders.

I walk through this habitat first time - nothing. So I walk back to the track and HELL YEAH - I believe I saw the brightest silverish looking male I ever saw but he was to fast for me and i missed him and the badest thing...without a photo

All in all it was a very fine day and I know...I´ve a horrible english sorry about that

Here some shoots, all in situ.

First male

First gravid female

Second gravid female

Laying here

Two gravid females of Zootoca vivipara

Third gravid female

See the female ?

And before i went back home i look again to the first brown female and take another shoot of her

[Mario Schweiger]

Good shots, Mr. Andre Berus!

Mario

[Andre Schmid]

Today I found a youngster again from last year...but the color turns to dark brown....maybe I found her next year again and than she is black

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I hope i can show tomorrow a report from this weekend with L. bilineata some Mantis religiosa and V. berus

[Andre Schmid]

Hi everybody,

here a small report from the last days.

Friday I visited the Kaiserstuhl to search for Mantis religiosa and Lacerta bilineata, It was a succesfull and nice Trip, here some pics.

Awesome colors.

Habitat of the Lacerta bilineatas

Saturday I spend the morning the adders. I was looking if I found the first babys of the season but I only found some gravid femals, one male and the youngster (on post higher)

Here some pics.

Some adders were hard to find.

Beautiful nature here.

The only male I found (in shed).

Young female (in shed)

At this small terrain I found 3 gravid females.

This adder here is really hard to see....Did you find her ?

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Today I was in my natrix habitat (and Coronella habitat). It was very (!) hot and I only found one Coronella and a DOR gravid Anguis fragilis.

[Aleksandar Simovic]

@Andre

it was easy