A small tour around my house (4 km)

[marco rinaldi]

Ciao I'm relatively new about herps, I like a lot tortoises and I'm now approaching other reptiles, so I tried to contribute with some picture taken in my garden (tarentola) and on the hills around my house.
I live in Southern Italy and precisely in Campania region, near Salerno town ina villa with a big garden.
I apologize for some mistake in species identification
Tis picture was made last week at 8:30 in the morning on the fence around the garden, it is curios thata every morning at the same hour between end of september and october the two lizards bask together:

Podarcis siculus and Trentola mauritanica

At 10:30 Iwent for a little walk on the hills around my house

Olive trees in a hilly and dry habitat

I could see thousands of podarcis and lacerta escaping very fast and I was not faster with my camera.
Only this two ones I could capture on my digital camera:

Podarcis siculus on a piece of stone

Podarcis muralis on an old tractor

And finally I did find one pair of the very rare Testudo hermanni hermanni

dorsal view

plastron view

Then I glimpsed another male:

Young male of T. hermanni hermanni

and the carrion of a young female killed by a wild boar:

wild boar killing

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It was very hot last week and the night around the lights of the door entrance I spotted a young Tarentola mauritanica (usual friends of my family):

hatchling of Tarentola mauritanica

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I've finished my small tour (only 3 hours) around my house and I hope you enjoy as me the nice herps live close to me.

[Francesco Tri]

Thank you for the excellent report, Mark!
We hope that the turtles now remain where they are and not fall prey to some criminal bastard!
Unfortunately in your regions is a widespread practice by hunters and poachers to collect turtles for resale! is not true!? (nevvero)?! : Lol:

An affectionate hug, Francesco!

[Mario Schweiger]

Hello Marco,

first, welcome to our forum!

And thanks for your report.
The wild boar - I have found out - is also a very big problem in Tuscany, together with Hystrix.

Mario

[Jürgen Gebhart]

Welcome Marco, Thanks for sharing!
Are you sure that the lizard on the tractor is a muralis?

[marco rinaldi]

No I'm not sure. I'll be clear with you I dont understand the slight difference between the two taxa (muralis and siculus) and they are sympatric in my zone!

[Wolfram Schurig]

Hello, Marco!

Welcome and thankyou for this nice report! Must be great having those hermannis near home! Very interesting couple, lizard and gecko basking togethter! And: for sure, the lizard on the tractor is Podarcis s. siculus!

Wolfram