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Hello everybody Today with a 20°C and strong scirocco wind, all the lizards in my garden(Podarcis siculus) were out to bask .
For my friends in colder erpetologiacal areas that are waiting the spring:






And this shot was made on last saturday in a botanic trip in the "orto botanico di Napoli" or Napoli Botanic Garden and precisely in the ferns puddle,


It was 10°C but there were a lot of those guys (I don't know the species and I did not want disturb the little animal):

Oh yeah, nice to see a few herps.
But the snow begins to melt here in Berlin.

marco rinaldi wrote:there were a lot of those guys (I don't know the species and I did not want disturb the little animal)

Unless it's introduced (you never know with this kind of places), that should be a female Italian Newt (Lissotriton italicus). If not, I'd guess that it's a visiting Smooth Newt (Lissotriton vulgaris) from Rome .

With the temperatures you're having, amphibian activity should be intense...

And here in Copenhagen it was just beginning to melt but then a couple of hours ago it started snowing ago. The weather forecast says we'll get another 30 cm over the weekend

The coldest temperature of this winter in Finland so far, was measured today: -39,8 °C.
Where I live, -23,9 °C right now.

It's not spring yet..