Bulgaria (Svode) - March 2009
Posted: Fri May 22, 2009 3:06 pm
Here are my first herp photos for this year. I took them in Svode for a couple of hours.
Svode is a small village in western Bulgaria. There is a river running through it where I usually go fishing but this time I wasn’t there to catch fish but to photograph frogs. The weather was warm and sunny with clear sky and no wind at all. Some meters away from the river there are a number of ponds rich in aquatic vegetation. This is what I found in and around them:
For my surprise, I also found a beautiful, red-eyed, male Emys orbicularis slowly swimming in the shallows near the shore.
Svode is a small village in western Bulgaria. There is a river running through it where I usually go fishing but this time I wasn’t there to catch fish but to photograph frogs. The weather was warm and sunny with clear sky and no wind at all. Some meters away from the river there are a number of ponds rich in aquatic vegetation. This is what I found in and around them:
For my surprise, I also found a beautiful, red-eyed, male Emys orbicularis slowly swimming in the shallows near the shore.