Summer (observations)

[Jeroen Speybroeck]

No literal classroom, Bero, I could just as well have written "personal opinions blog" or "street corner".

Do you think Shakespeare and Dante would have labelled your "Just USE it" as a humble use of words? Were you truly following your own credo by using sufficient wording to add nuance? Perhaps smilies are your ticket after all.

Enough silliness for one day, I'm going herping.

[Daniel Bohle]

Yes, you should come before nothing is left.

No trip this year for me?
Don´t know if this makes me happy

[Berislav Horvatic]

Do you think Shakespeare and Dante would have labelled your "Just USE it" as a humble use of words?

I can only hope they would. Maybe not as "humble", but as sensible. They were both quite practical people, after all.

Were you truly following your own credo by using sufficient wording to add nuance? Perhaps smilies are your ticket after all.

I think I did use sufficient wording to add "nuance". Ask Shakespeare. Or Dante. (Or Micha perhaps, he's a much sterner judge.)
After all, since when are the "smilies" or "emoticons" a means to confer nuances...?! I rather see them as "crutches" that confer
much coarser messages...
But you did get it, didn't you? Then it worked. Even without smilies. (No, no, & no, I do not HATE them... for me they're just
mildly childish - for the grownups like us. Anyway, just forgetaboutit.)

Enough silliness for one day, I'm going herping

Lucky you. All the best. Pax & bonum, amice.

[Niklas Ban]

commonherps

[Mario Schweiger]

The Natrix natrix tessellata looks cool

[Berislav Horvatic]

The Natrix natrix tessellata looks cool

Just remember how many Natrix natrix "tessellatoides" one can encounter e.g. on the island of Krk... Always
"cool", but sometimes terribly misleading to some of the "enthusiasts"... who hasten to premature conclusions.
You know what I mean... of course you do - we've seen some of those together.
(I mean, "tessellatoides" , not the "enthusiasts"...) Here is just one of them you haven't seen:

[Marc Prokein]

Natrix natrix, Zootoca vivipara and Podarcis muralis from today.

Natrix

Zootoca

Podarcis

Podarcis

[Niklas Ban]

Rureifel

[Niklas Ban]

I don't like that this topic is going down

[Ronald Zimmerman]

Some observations from the past two months in the Netherlands..
You can find my full report here: http://ronaldzimmerman.nl/spring-in-my- ... yard-2015/

Sand Lizards (Lacerta agilis)




ouch!








Getting soaking wet for Common Midwife Toad (Alytes obstetricans)


Common Wall Lizards (Podarcis muralis)




Another Common Midwife Toad (Alytes obstetricans)


Smooth Newt (Lissotriton vulgaris)


Not a reptile or amphibian, but definitely an highlight. The European badger (Meles meles).