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Hi,
yesterday afternoon we checked the local Zootoca population.

20 °C, clouds: the Zootocas were warming up on dry wood:


Another guy:


Most females still gravid:


But finally, we spotted the first baby:


Regards
Peter

Nice shots Peter. I went out for an hour or so today to my local place, cloudy and quite wet (its rained for the last 10 days); saw 10 Anguis and a single baby Zootoca. Not long till the baby vipers now!

Nice shots!
But I think the Baby is not from this year. Freshborn Zootoca are black or darkbrown.

Agree with Jürgen,

newborns are mostly very dark brown to black!
But, maybe not everywhere
These youngsters, probably newborns - because you found lots of them at the ed of July 2009 - are not black. Total length 40 - 45 mm.
Location: Ibmer Moor, border Salzburg - Upper Austria, Austria; 400 mm asl
Sorry for image quality

You are right, Jürgen: it doesn't look like a new born - surprising, that it's still so small. I will have an eye on it...