Short trip to Southern Iberia

[Daniel Kane]

From the 16-20th of August I was in the south of Spain. Just a quick getaway really, with no real herp focus. Being the middle of August I did not have high hopes for finding anything more than the most common species, so I was not disappointed with the result I was staying in the hills above Coin, about an hour's drive from Malaga. The 17th was very cloudy - no herps until the sun came out later on. 18th was spent in Gibraltar - again, no herps until the sun came out in the afternoon. The 19th was spent around the villa - 37*C so a bit on the warm side for most herps. Still though, a few new species for me and some nice time off work

First the herps;

Pelophylax perezi

Pelophylax perezi

Pelophylax close-up

Tail-less Tarentola

Psammodromus algirus

Young Podarcis vaucheri

Male vaucheri from Gibraltar

Psammodromus in the garden

Hemidactylus on the hunt

Inverts;

Plenty of Lycosa around the villa. Also saw plenty of funnel-webs and a few scorpions.

Lycosa tarantula

Lycosa face-on

Lycosa, hunting

Buthus sp.

ID anyone??

Nice little mantid

Now a few other shots;

Gibraltar

Mother and baby Barbary macaque

A few chillaxing

A few more

Black kites and booted eagles

Common dolphins

[Jeroen Speybroeck]

Nice shots! The damselfly is an immature male Calopteryx haemorrhoidalis.

[Mario Schweiger]

The picture shows in an impressive way, those monkeys are "tourists" on THE ROCK.
Posing like, Germans, Austrians, English, etc.

Mario