Some shoots last year - Sicily

Some shoots last year - Sicily

Postby Alessandro Barra » Wed Mar 22, 2017 12:20 am

A collection of beautiful cold blooded encounters, during the spring and summer of last year around Sicily. I hope you enjoy this short gallery of photos :D

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Sicilian green toad (Bufotes siculus)

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Common toad (Bufo bufo)

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Raganella italiana (Hyla intermedia)

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Western whip snake (Hierophis viridiflavus)

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Western green lizard (Lacerta bilineata)

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Grass snake (Natrix natrix sicula)

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Ocellated skink (Chalcides ocellatus tiligugu)

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Italian wall lizard (Podarcis siculus)

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Western whip snake (Hierophis viridiflavus)

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Western whip snake (Hierophis viridiflavus)

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Moorish wall gecko (Tarentola mauritanica)

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Sicilian pond turtle (Emys trinacris)

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Vipera aspis hugyi

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Italian Aesculapian snake (Zamenis lineatus), juvanile

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The Italian Aesculapian snake (Zamenis lineatus)

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And after so many exhausting research and finally last year came out a few individuals of Javelin sand boa (Eryx jaculus) :D :D :D
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Re: Some shoots last year - Sicily

Postby Jürgen Gebhart » Wed Mar 22, 2017 4:27 am

Nice pics!

Congrats on the Eryx!
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Re: Some shoots last year - Sicily

Postby Evgeny Kotelevsky » Wed Mar 22, 2017 8:28 am

Superb collection! :)
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Re: Some shoots last year - Sicily

Postby Mario Schweiger » Wed Mar 22, 2017 8:45 am

great spectrum of Sicilian herps. Congrats!
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Please visit also my personal Herp-site vipersgarden.at
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Re: Some shoots last year - Sicily

Postby Alexandre Roux » Wed Mar 22, 2017 3:09 pm

Awesome shots and what a sighting ! Makes me want to visit :o
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Re: Some shoots last year - Sicily

Postby Bobby Bok » Wed Mar 22, 2017 5:52 pm

Fantastic post, thanks for sharing!
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Re: Some shoots last year - Sicily

Postby Peter Oefinger » Thu Mar 23, 2017 9:25 am

Nice - like the juvenile Zamenis...
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Re: Some shoots last year - Sicily

Postby Alessandro Barra » Fri Mar 24, 2017 11:59 am

Thanks a lot to everyone, it 'a pleasure to share these photos here ;) If you happen to come here in Sicily maybe you herping together :D
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