...Continued from Part 1 =>http://www.fieldherping.eu/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=2539&p=25538#p25538
Walking in the forest I stumbled upon the ruins of an old house where I found more P. muralis and a young Coronella austriaca in a pre-shedding stage.
Near the ruins there was a small shaded forest stream where there were yet more P. muralis and P. ridibundus, but also Rana dalmatina and a newly metamorphosed Salamandra salamandra which was still in the water and which I was very happy to see in this time of year. Inspired by this little guy I thought I'd look around the vicinity of the stream to see if I can find any adults. I flipped a few stones and I was lucky enough to get a big adult female which looked gravid to me.
I wasn't expecting to find much in this hot and dry time of the year with little time to search but all and all I was pretty satisfied with the result, and of course a "new" species on the list is always an exciting thing. Sometimes when you don't have plans you might find more than if you do, and those unexpected finds are really great.