Now I have got a time for write a small report for this forum .. On the begining of April I was with my friend in Croatia. Our plan was to find and take photos of reptiles - mainly horned vipers.
We had not a lot of time. Start of our trip was on Tuesday and on Friday I was back home..but we had a lucky. It was nice weather and really good place for reptiles.
On Tuesday about 11am we started with finding and found Pseudopus apodus and first Hierophis viridiflavus carbonarius. In the evening we found Euscorpius sp. and our first Vipera ammodytes it was nice young snake Before sunset we found a lot of Podarcis melisellensis and two other Green whip snakes.
On Wednesday we woke up very early and in sunrise we found many sheltopusiks.
Around midday we wanted to take some pictures of birds but we found first beautiful Zamenis longissimus and it was little bit better than birds for me!
It was about 4pm when we found other awesome snake - Elaphe quatuorlineata unfortunately it wasn't good light for taking pictures so I have got only one.
We went to the tent about 2am because we tried to find scorpions under UV light
Thursday was our last day for herping and it was very windy. I thought that it is not good for reptiles but on this day we found three adults of Horned viper (2x male and 1x female), lot of Green whip snakes, two Natrix natrix and many many lizards..
On Friday in the morning we woke up to rainy day but we was happy because of our successful herptrip
On this report is not everything but only most important things for me
I hope that there is not many mistakes it is my first report..
Species of our short herptrip:
Hyla arborea
Lacerta viridis
Podarcis melisellensis
Algyroides nigropunctatus
Podarcis siculus
Anguis fragilis
Pseudopus apodus
Natrix natrix
Zamenis longissimus
Elaphe quartuorlineata
Hierophis viridiflavus
Vipera ammodytes