Spring Thread

[Robin Duborget]

Beautiful view (coastal Archaeolacerta) :

[Peter Oefinger]

Beautiful view (coastal Arachaeolacerta) :

Indeed

[Andre Schmid]

Yesterday with nice weather at Black Forest

[Niklas Ban]

The last days were good. The climate was very mild and we had a lot of rain during the night. All photos were taken in the western part of germany. The natterjacks are calling and there were hundreds of them, just a nice place.

[Ray Hamilton]

Some great photos on this thread.

[Robin Duborget]

Today in Bonifacio, south of Corsica, a lot of Algyroides :

[Erich Köck]

Hi all,
after "lurking" for quite some time in this great forum and not contributing anything I take the opportunity of an unusually productive one hour walk at a nearby brook to introduce myself and post some of my todays findings. I am a biologist from Upper Austria (though unfortunately working in IT management) spending every spare minute in the field herping and photographing. Today a stretch of 500m at the northern outskirts of Linz yielded 14 Natrix tesselata and 2 Zamenis longissimus. Not bad for 60 minutes of urban herping - at least for me...

btw: any clues as to the frog of the last picture? I really lost track of central european water frog taxonomy years ago...

Regards
Erich

[Michal Szkudlarek]

@up it is hard to tell without photo of calluses on hind legs but i think it can be Pelophylax ridibundus

btw now Bufo bufo are mating in my garden pond

[Matthijs Hollanders]

Really nice pic of the fire salamander Niklas!

[Niklas Ban]

Really nice pic of the fire salamander Niklas!

Thank you very much!