Lorraine & Lower Saxony
Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2018 10:12 am
Hello together,
Last week, I finally started vipering. First, I went to Lorraine and got some really nice asps (6 in total, including 2 large females). The habitat was lovely, and the calcareous meadows were full of flowering "Anémones", as the French call Pulsatilla. That's why a whole group of photographers accompanied me in the morning. However, nobody was interested in vipers, except me. So I didn't have to share them. I also found a fully grown smooth snake very close to the asps. Lizards were quite hard to discover and seemingly rare (I got 3 P. muralis, 1 L. agilis and 3 A. fragilis). Many thanks to Ulrich Schulte for this spot!
Back in Germany, I went on to a day-trip together with Lebetina Daniel. At the margins of a large moorland in Lower Saxony, we hunted for snakes. The cold windy weather (that hadn't been mentioned in the forecast) did permit us only a flipped baby slow worm in the morning (at least something for testing Daniels new camera). Later in the afternoon, our patience was rewarded with a bit of sunshine. Immediately, we found some basking L. agilis in the heath and not much later we managed to find a female adder. So the day was saved.
I wish everybody a great start into the reptile season!
Last week, I finally started vipering. First, I went to Lorraine and got some really nice asps (6 in total, including 2 large females). The habitat was lovely, and the calcareous meadows were full of flowering "Anémones", as the French call Pulsatilla. That's why a whole group of photographers accompanied me in the morning. However, nobody was interested in vipers, except me. So I didn't have to share them. I also found a fully grown smooth snake very close to the asps. Lizards were quite hard to discover and seemingly rare (I got 3 P. muralis, 1 L. agilis and 3 A. fragilis). Many thanks to Ulrich Schulte for this spot!
Back in Germany, I went on to a day-trip together with Lebetina Daniel. At the margins of a large moorland in Lower Saxony, we hunted for snakes. The cold windy weather (that hadn't been mentioned in the forecast) did permit us only a flipped baby slow worm in the morning (at least something for testing Daniels new camera). Later in the afternoon, our patience was rewarded with a bit of sunshine. Immediately, we found some basking L. agilis in the heath and not much later we managed to find a female adder. So the day was saved.
I wish everybody a great start into the reptile season!