The photos I will show you here might look a little familiar..........Enjoy!!
Under a little umbrella we found this smooth snake...and some other friends of my photo-making-device....
- Coronella austriaca
- Bufo calamita
- Alytes obstetricans
- Podarcis muralis
In a village there were some man made water places with a roof above it, so these were the first animals found while we did not feel rain.......
- Ichthyosaura alpestris cyreni
- Lissotriton helveticus
That night after we had a fantastic meal and some beers(just a few) there were 3 guys who wanted to go outside, after telling the 4th(B) that he would miss a great adventure, he changed his mind and went with us, the results were great, after the waterplace where we saw 5 Triturus marmoratus, we went into the woods behind it to look for Salamandra, 2 guys were fast as lightning and B and I lost sight of them within the first 2 minutes, even blowing the "poepfluit" did not help to find them.....
- Triturus marmoratus
The separate doubles both found one Salamandra, this is the one that B found.
- Salamandra salamandra, intergrade between subspecies fastuosa and bejarae
The next day I made a deal with the sun, follow our van.........I managed to meet with the first Hyla molleri and it became very popular when I introduced it to the others..
- Hyla molleri
Next stop was a good spot..................................
- Vipera latastei 1
- 2
- 3
and
- Triturus marmoratus
Lacerta bilineata ans Chalcides striatus were also found here
Only a short distance away Jan found an Asp Viper, so everybody was happy again...
- Vipera aspis
We also visited a place where aspis and latastei both live, but we found no hybrids.
That night we arrived in the Picos and it was raining, but thats no surprise.....is it???
Results:
- Rana temporaria parvipalmata
and many of the next Salamandra
- Salamandra salamandra bernardezi
The next day we went higher into the picos and I loved the place, we even had very short periods of sunshine........
- Iberolacerta monticola cantabrica
- an other male!!
The next place was a place where we found some reasons to smile again...
- Rana Iberica
- Salamandra salamandra alfredschmidti
- + 1
- Vipera seoanei seoanei
In an other place we searched and found what we came for!
- Chioglossa lusitanica
- S s alfredschmidti
- Lissotriton boscai
- Because it was Queensday........can not think of an other reason.....
Vipera seoanei cantabrica and Iberolacerta galani were next...........but every time someone mentioned that viper, rain started to fall down again, so Galani...... was not a great idea also.....
BUT, before we arrived at the galani place we came by an area which seem to have potential for us, and this time the sun was with us..
- Coronella girondica
- Rhinechis scalaris
At the Galani spot we did not see any of them, but a juvenile and an adult male of Lacerta schreiberi took the pain away for a little while.
- Lacerta schreiberi
That night we stayed in a nice hotel and because the pain was becoming worse again, we needed lots of beer...........(and some fool thought throwing spiritus in the beer was a good idea, gave the plants some of that special juice)
In the morning it did not look good for Galani, but we went anyway........
......and found almost nothing again, Podarcis bocagei and 1 juvenile Iberolacerta galani which I managed to dig out of a place which looked more like a garbage-dump.
- Iberolacerta galani
Now it was time to go to the beach, the best place for us , because we are actually all very handsome beachboys.......on the beach there were very hot models waiting for us...
- Podarcis bocagei
- Chalcides bedriagai pistaciae
- Timon lepidus
- Podarcis bocagei
- Chalcides striatus
From the beach straight to a nice island.
- Hyla molleri
- Discoglossus galganoi
The trip is not over yet, so more photos are to be expected SOON!!!!!!!
Ok the writing and uploading starts again, (after a good night sleep with almost some romance.........)
The place we are now is a place with S s gallaica, we went there straight after we visited the island, so 2 locations in one night, this is what we found...........
- Lissotriton boscai romance
- Chioglossa lusitanica
- Sal sal Gallaica
The next day we woke up later than normal because of our night adventures, first we went to a place with Emys orbicularis, but only W saw 2 oof them, then he hid them somewhere and called us, we saw nothing.............
And because W did that terrible egocentric thing, we left him somewhere to continue the trip on his own.......(maybe this part is a little different from the other reports..)
Ok, lets try to find V seoanei cantabrica again, conditions were great....................for amphibians.........one moment we met the sun and got out of our van straight away, no vipers, only 2 Anguis fragilis....
That night we slept in a sort of truckers motel, which had some crazy guests, there were guys walking around pretending to be a pirate, including pirate-lemonade (brown Rum) and pirate noises.......(AAARRRGGGHHH)........., but other crazy local guests were smoking illegal drugs inside of the motel........
Next morning we were happy to leave that shithole, waved to the criminals.....(or took them with us....) and went to a viper place near Burgos, but did I mention before that we had some rain during the trip.............only Timon lepidus was doug out.
Next spot, Psammodromus hispanicus was the target.......at first we searched while it was clouded and found.......
- Podarcis liolepis
- Timon juvenile
When the sun finally came I saw 1, but it was gone very fast, we decided to stay and wait for the sun to show its strenght again, after a while I cought one with the help of Bert and Jan, B also found one, I also found the 4th Coronella girondica of the trip hidden in a dead tree.
- Psammodromus hispanicus, there it is......
- and after I cought it....
Pyrenees were the only thing between us and home, so we went there to have a good finale, good turned into great................
- Bufo bufo, they tried to make a toad-tower, but it collapsed..
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