Northern Spain april/may 2012

[Christoph Stenger]

Which province? Soria? (if make ask this question)

[Jeroen Speybroeck]

Which province? Soria? (if make ask this question)

No, Burgos, and that's about as specific we'll get around here.

[Jeroen Speybroeck]

Damn, the youngster beat me to it...

Here's the REAL report !
http://www.hylawerkgroep.be/jeroen/index.php?id=60

And even a little more of them boring 'manders and more here =>
https://picasaweb.google.com/109569403792660107504/201204NWSpain#

[Jeroen Speybroeck]

BTW, Bob, one of us cannot count.

[Gabriel Martínez]

Hi guys! very interesting reports. Although vipers for me are the coolest, Salamandra pictures are also cool. One of them, a pregnant one, seems that it has 500 baby salamanders inside. I´m happy that you get to find so many species with this bad weather. I have to prepare my Morocco trip report

[Peter Oefinger]

Damn, the youngster beat me to it...

Yes, this guy is really fast...
Good for me to see that a bulk of professionals can have their difficulties in finding viperas
The Psammodromus looks the same as the western species for me...

[Bobby Bok]

Thanks a lot for the comments everyone, it's indeed a stone age camera. I've got it for my birthday about 7 years ago but it still works fine. I know all it's functions so it's easy for me to use it and no need to carry heavy photo-equipment while herping

Another great report Bobby...congrats
Sometimes "bad" weather is better than "too good" weather

Totally true, in rain it's at least possible to find animals underneath stones. But I love to swim when it's warm and that wasn't possible

Great, Bobby – and really fast online-publishing! Could you post some (bigger) pictures of Ps. hispanicus. Would be interesting to see if they differ from Ps. edwardsianus…

When I got home at 09:00 after a night of few moments of sleep in car/train I was just too anxious to look at the pictures, after making the report -> comatose sleeping. But here some pictures of true hispanicus, I can send you some more if your interested.

BTW, Bob, one of us cannot count.

Your right, 38 species it is (including the Malpolon skin that decorated the car for the last few days and kryptic Emys).

[Carl Corbidge]

Fantastic stuff guys, you may be second up with the report Jeroen but your translation is a much easier read than Googles translation of Dutch, cant wait for some salamander action in Corsica in a few weeks .

[Laura Bok]

Thanks Jeroen! Great finds, entertaining report, and excellent photography. This made my evening. I love the alfredschmidtis and the Chioglossa lusitanica - manders rule !

[Peter Oefinger]

Here's the REAL report !
http://www.hylawerkgroep.be/jeroen/index.php?id=60

Great: I also like the different bocagei - very interesting!