Hello out there!
I just came back from Croatia. Earlier this year I kicked of a small discussion about my decission to go in the beginning of April. (fieldherping.eu/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=2379&p=23615#p23615)
So I spent 8 days travelling from Zadar down to Dubrovnik. So I had the chance to see as many different habitats as possible and to hopefully escape bad weather. I travelled to possible habitats (as I had no places from others) from 0 to 700m asl. Temperatures ranged from 9°C to 28°C. Only two half days with inappropriate weather stopped me from herping all day.
I had quite some nice results I never expected!
Unfortunatelly I found no V. ammodytes.
Most lizards (espacially all green species) were quite abundant.
P. siculus
L. trilineata
P. melisellensis
A. nigropunctatus
D. oxycephala
I also found 10+ Pseudopus apodus.
T. hermanni
M. rivulata (damn alert monsters!)
One of the species I didn't expect: Z. situla
I found 3 (one DOR)
N. tessellata
N. natrix vs. P. ridibundus
The other species I didn't expect: Platyces najadum (at 18°C after many hours of heavy rain)
Just one thing I don't know what to think about.
I found those tracks/ digging sites:
What kind of animal digs in this stony ground? In live you could also recognize something like paws that caused that structures. It was in NP Biokovo - so maybe bears?
I also found some scat:
You can find much morge pictures on flickr including lots of habitat shots: https://www.flickr.com/photos/60302003@ ... 691178544/
Or on my homepage including a trip report in german and some youtube videos:
http://www.ambystomatidae.de/kroatien-i ... -2016.html
Cheers!