The melanistic "curse" is weakening

[Rok Grzelj]

This morning me and my wife went to our local berus spot...
...and spotted a melanistic female



After that we spotted another one...melanistig again but with some "normal" colors



And on the way back a nice natrix male with totally normal colors

[Jeroen Speybroeck]

Love that speckled adder !

[Borji Heras]

no words, i´m so in love with melanistic vipers....

[Jürgen Gebhart]

Great Pics!! The natrix is very nice! The first berus also and the second berus is a big eye catcher!!!
Should I say more??? Yes or No??


I do: Black rocks!!!!!

[Bastien Comment]

Wow, fantastic pictures! The 2 first ones especially, they just look so pure

[Paul Lambourne]

Rok,

Bloody hell, Teja takes a good picture absolutely stunning berus pics...

Cheers Paul

[Rok Grzelj]

Bloody hell, Teja takes a good picture absolutely stunning berus pics...

Thats why I look for snakes and she takes pics team work
Ofcourse she also finds herps ...and I take some pics

[Mourits Løvholt]

First of all; really nice pictures!!!

And on the way back a nice natrix male with totally normal colors

Melanistic adders are not really something that impresses me too much, not that there aren't beautiful, they are, that's a fact! But since they are very common in Denmark it's not really anything special to me .
But that grass snake is amazing?! You wrote ''totally normal colors'' -are you serious? Then I'm very envious! Almost every grass snake i find here in Zealand, is just 100% black despite the yellow markings on the neck. Your grass snakes are really nice!

[Rok Grzelj]

First of all; really nice pictures!!!

Thanx

You wrote ''totally normal colors'' -are you serious?

With normal I meant somethin not melanistic....finally

[Jeroen Speybroeck]

Almost every grass snake i find here in Zealand, is just 100% black despite the yellow markings on the neck.

That's interesting...

I would have to agree with Mourits, although I'm afraid at least Jürgen would call us crazy, but I cannot see how a black viper can be nicer than a regular one with the nice zigzag pattern... So, for me, black does not rock

Also, as much as I like Salamandra atra, I prefer a beautiful Salamandra salamandra anytime... Maybe it's my lack of skill, but I hate taking pictures of those blackies.

Is there really no-one else here who agrees?