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[Paul Bachhausen]

last Weekend near Münster, a cold, rainy and stormy day!
But had some luck:

more:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/salamanderseiten/sets/72157651904665405/
Paul

[Berislav Horvatic]

last Weekend near Münster, a cold, rainy and stormy day!
But had some luck...

Lucky you indeed!
Believe me, the German (or, rather, "Central European") adders and our adders - "deep in the South" - are quite different animals...
I've been "preaching" that for years, but people still don't believe me... unless they come over here and try the same thing, under
the "German" conditions/criteria. (Marc Prokein and Niclas Ban had recently great luck even with that - or, rather, contrary to that -
but it's not the rule...)

@ Mario: Here even coronellas don't surface when it's "typical coronella weather", namely, the "German coronella weather", as you
have it described it (to me, at least)...

[Paul Bachhausen]

..... - very often - it's youngsters that you will find during rainy/stormy weather.

We found two yuvenile, no adult!
Paul

[Berislav Horvatic]

So I think the German adders are not the hardest at all.

I suppose that by "the hardest" you meant something like "the most resilient, the bravest, the most persistent, the most daring"...
If so, of course not. What I wanted to point out is that our local population of the lowland V. berus bosniensis are a bunch of
rather "lazy", "spoiled/spoilt" creatures, who just don't have to "tough it out" as their more northern relatives do - for the simple
reason that they can afford it. Lucky them, but hard on our fieldherping guests from the "North" who have different experiences
and expectations, and might face bitter disappointments...

[Andre Schmid]

The germans are maybe not the hardest, but they are very cool (just joking)

(same adder like a few sites before with the surrounding)

[Thomas Reich]

Incredible! Amazing picture!

But why did you put the poor adder in that hole?

[Guillaume Gomard]

Very cool pic Andre. I'm surprised to see that you still have so much snow there!

[Andre Schmid]

I took this picture a few weeks ago...not this time

But I thought its worth to show with the present context "hard or not" (again just joking, dont care about hard or not, north or south, I love adders ! )

[Berislav Horvatic]

... again just joking, dont care about hard or not, north or south, I love adders ! )

I love them as well as you do, but these "lazy" or "spoiled" or just "relaxed" adders of ours, around Zagreb, just don't ever try
to offer us scenes like this one... Honestly, I have always blamed everything on THEM and their "laziness" (based on my/our
experiences), but I must confess that we actually never have tried to find them under circumstances like THAT, so maybe,
just maybe... But, most probably, NO, it's a different climate, a different habitat, a different subspecies.... Of course they
might as well (quite rightfully!) have their own ways and/or preferencies...

[Ronald Zimmerman]

Vipera berus from last month


Bufo bufo from last week