Short trip to Allgäu

[Guillaume Gomard]

After all those nice reports on the Balkans, I'm posting some "German stuff" following the past 3 days spent in the Allgäu region. The weather was changing a lot during this long week-end: Snow on Friday, sun on Saturday, and a mix of clouds and sun on Sunday and Monday. All in all, 1 full day was dedicated to herping. The first attempt to observe V.berus close to a "moor" was not successful because of a too cloudy sky. Nevertheless, I was pleased to meet Jürgen, our Vipera aficionado Today I tried my chance again, and thanks to a more favourable weather (some sun around 9 a.m), and despite the wrong weather forecast (those guys can definitely not predict the weather those days...), I could photograph several adders in situ. I know someone who will certainly go back there soon...

View on the South of the region on Sunday morning:

The V.berus session, in a different place:

Another "Höllenotter":

The highlight of the day, a very beautiful and calm animal:

Guillaume

[Jürgen Gebhart]

The weather for herping was horrible (fog, clounds, low temperatures) on Sunday morning! When I arrived my home village I had full sun and was able to Picture a few Lacerta agilis.

Big congrats! I like the first one!
Same place?

[Guillaume Gomard]

Yes, same place. All the adders were seen directly close to the walking path. This morning I also searched in moors close to Immenstadt. Although I did not seen anything (too early I guess), there is no doubts that adders are living there as well. A lot of interesting spots in this region and not so much time for proper investigation...

[Andre Schmid]

Nice observation in awesome landscape, I like

[Bobby Bok]

Amazing landscape on the first picture and the in-situ adder shots are great!

[Laura Bok]

Hui, great landscape and a very beautiful black adder! Nice to see the snow covered peaks of the Allgäu and some snake activity in one post. Thanks for sharing!

[Paul Lambourne]

Guillaume,

Great to see berus in such stunning scenery .. in the UK it tends to be exposed chalk hillsides or moorland..not so pretty.

Paul

[Carl Corbidge]

Admittedly Paul it is pretty crappy down south, we were here last week cracking scenery, cracking adders and a cracking pint and it wasn't even in Yorkshire .

[Dominik Hauser]

Nice adders Guillaume. I have been there several times last week. There are still not so many adders outside as normally later in the year.