Spring in Croatia
Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 10:27 pm
Here loads of pics (aka close to overkill) from excursions in Croatia this spring (End of March / Beginning of April) - even though the weather never seemed "perfect" (most of the time cold and windy), we found much more than expected
Uh and in case my supervisor reads along here - i'm also productive!
For warming up, let's start with a, at least i think, easy searching - pic. I found 7 of that guys, but as far as i failed to find the big black one on Jürgens last searchpost, i'm not not so sure if I should rather switch to cows or other bigger stuff
Btw, sometimes you have to choose shitty places..
At the moment i'm more on the clicking-lizards line, because they're usually really thankful in-situ models:
Because of the early time in the year, they were really sleepy and quite easy to approach.
This was one of the greatest findings: Telescopus crawling on/between stones around noon (end of March)
And most-likely the finding-of-the-year at the very beginning of the season
So actually the year's already a full success
For relaxing: Euscorpius sp.:
Did i mention that i like to click lizards?
Amongst all that siculus, also a single melisellensis
The first (juvenile/subadult) ammodytes, Attila saw it out of the driving (!) car basking on the base of a stonewall
And it was not the only one, summed up we found on the excursions around 10 of them
And also quite a lot of Malplon, which really surprised us, because weather was either really cold and windy (~ 12° airtemperature and Bora, around +2 in the night) or completely shitty. But they didn't seem to care, as long as the sun was outside, they were too.
Ah, jp, there's a treasure everywhere!
in this case a house centepede (Scutigera coleoptrata)
some tired trilineatas
another Malpolon
Uh - besides crazy horses (we nearly got run over..) one of the greatest dangers on fieldtrips: bloody bears with horns
if you're along the seaside all the time, there comes the day you even start to photograph that..
and one last ammodytes pic for our viperaphile friends (in this case the same specimen as before).
To sum it up, really nice trips and many thanks to Boris & the Crew for everything!
Uh and in case my supervisor reads along here - i'm also productive!
For warming up, let's start with a, at least i think, easy searching - pic. I found 7 of that guys, but as far as i failed to find the big black one on Jürgens last searchpost, i'm not not so sure if I should rather switch to cows or other bigger stuff
Btw, sometimes you have to choose shitty places..
At the moment i'm more on the clicking-lizards line, because they're usually really thankful in-situ models:
Because of the early time in the year, they were really sleepy and quite easy to approach.
This was one of the greatest findings: Telescopus crawling on/between stones around noon (end of March)
And most-likely the finding-of-the-year at the very beginning of the season
So actually the year's already a full success
For relaxing: Euscorpius sp.:
Did i mention that i like to click lizards?
Amongst all that siculus, also a single melisellensis
The first (juvenile/subadult) ammodytes, Attila saw it out of the driving (!) car basking on the base of a stonewall
And it was not the only one, summed up we found on the excursions around 10 of them
And also quite a lot of Malplon, which really surprised us, because weather was either really cold and windy (~ 12° airtemperature and Bora, around +2 in the night) or completely shitty. But they didn't seem to care, as long as the sun was outside, they were too.
Ah, jp, there's a treasure everywhere!
in this case a house centepede (Scutigera coleoptrata)
some tired trilineatas
another Malpolon
Uh - besides crazy horses (we nearly got run over..) one of the greatest dangers on fieldtrips: bloody bears with horns
if you're along the seaside all the time, there comes the day you even start to photograph that..
and one last ammodytes pic for our viperaphile friends (in this case the same specimen as before).
To sum it up, really nice trips and many thanks to Boris & the Crew for everything!