After a bad weather weekend by internet I saw today it would be a hot day. So I called a work partner and I got a free morning. I drove to Guadarrama (Segovia, 75kms from my home). This morning I parked the car and 5 minutes later I found a nice Vipera latastei. It was very stopped. Basking at 9:40 hours. Really good beginning! I thought all the morning would be full of vipers but not. I continued looking for vipers and I found a nice Timon lepidus (female).
Just running to the lizards one big male Malpolon run quickly to a hole and dissapear (3 big males this spring and all dissapear in good holes... quickly snakes! or maybe I´m old? 27years but many stones flipped...). I continued looking for vipers and another male Malpolon run quickly and dissapear (I´m old and slow indeed). Some minutes later a big female Malpolon tried to enter in a burrow and I got to catch it (being very cautioned about the health of the snake, like always!).
After 10 minutes I saw a part of a Rhinechis scalaris in a wall. Snake was cold and slow but the weather was sunny and 25º (11:00). Just with the Rhinechis in the hand I flipped a metalic thing and a subadult male Malpolon tried to scape, but I catched it (I just can catch females and childs, I´m a loser!).
Finally I went to the car and went to my office for working. In 2 hours I´ve found many snakes than all last july and august in Guadarrama May is magic for sure!!!!!!!!!!!! I forgot the vipera photos