Blue frogs and other stuff from today

[Mourits Løvholt]

A friend of mine and I did some fieldherping today for blue males of Rana arvalis.

We found a lot of them! And 11 Natrix natrix, 20 Lacerta agilis, 5 Zootoca vivipara, 20 Pelophylax kl. esculentus and 2 Lissotriton vulgaris

Pictures;

The newts:



Sandlizards:











One of the grass snakes, which ''died'':



And now for the moor frogs!:



































I'll leave you with this strange picture, in situ of course :

[Daniel Kane]

Nice photos Mourits; I especially like the first female Sand Lizard and all the blue frogs!

Thanks!

[Jeroen Speybroeck]

Nice. So, "the Danish blue" are about 25 days later than in Belgium, interesting...

[Mourits Løvholt]

Thanks guys!
Everything is a little late up here
The Natrix ''died'' after 5 seconds in my hand, I just quickly picked it up to get a single picture before releasing it again, we would rather spend the time photograping moor frogs

Btw. Have any of you found eggs from Pelophylax kl. esculentus yet this year?

[Jeroen Speybroeck]

Btw. Have any of you found eggs from Pelophylax kl. esculentus yet this year?

No, but Bufo calamita and Pelobates fuscus, yes.

[Martti Niskanen]

Liking this again (as I commented on your photos on FHF before). It's been a strange spring in Finland: Got warm really quick, but it's virtually impossible to get to a lot of the sites because of the snow. A friend spotted a single male V.berus last week after struggling more than half an hour in the snow with snow-shoes. The Ranas are still a couple of weeks away.

Will give it a go on saturday.

Keep the posts flowing, Mourits.

[Mourits Løvholt]

Thanks, Martti!
-Sounds depressing about the snow ..