Hi from Australia and Italy

The admin would like to ask all our members to give a short introduction of themselves here - also please include a picture of yourself, so we will recognize you in the field.

Hi from Australia and Italy

Postby Greg Wallis » Tue Sep 11, 2012 7:06 pm

Well Australia is home but I'm in Prato, Italy for the next few months as my wife is based here for a while.

I'm keen to get out and photograph/video some of the local wildlife and share my experiences on the forum. Most of the animals I am completely unfamiliar with and I have to refine my search image. On my first morning I encountered fleeting glimpses of some very beautiful Western Whip Snakes and lots of wall lizards along the old walls of this ancient city. I'm particularly keen on seeing some vipers as we don't have any representatives of that family in Australia (the Death Adder looks like a viper but is an elapid and a great example of convergent evolution). Hope to make some photo posts soon but have spent the last couple of days knocked out with the flu
Greg Wallis
 
Posts: 3
Joined: Tue Sep 11, 2012 4:08 pm
Hometown: melbourne
country: australia

Re: Hi from Australia and Italy

Postby Daniel Kane » Tue Sep 11, 2012 10:21 pm

Hi Greg, welcome here. Hope you find loads of herps while you're in Italy, and no doubt you will learn about them on here. I don't think that I am speaking just for myself when I say that I'm very interested in seeing some of your photos from down under!
Daniel Kane
 
Posts: 363
Joined: Tue Jun 16, 2009 7:35 pm
Location: London
Hometown: London
country: England

Re: Hi from Australia and Italy

Postby Mario Schweiger » Wed Sep 12, 2012 8:06 am

Hi Greg,
nice to have you here!
As Daniel said, I hope you will not forget us, when you will be back in Australia and show us some kind stuff from there.

Mario
Mario (Admin)

Please visit also my personal Herp-site vipersgarden.at
User avatar
Mario Schweiger
Site Admin
 
Posts: 2230
Joined: Wed May 06, 2009 7:57 pm
Location: Obertrum, Salzburg, Austria
Hometown: Obertrum
country: Austria

Re: Hi from Australia and Italy

Postby Ilian Velikov » Wed Sep 12, 2012 3:19 pm

Welcome! Yeah, I can't wait to see some photos from the lizard heaven.
Ilian Velikov
 
Posts: 1216
Joined: Thu May 21, 2009 12:19 pm
Hometown: Pravets
country: Bulgaria

Re: Hi from Australia and Italy

Postby Gabriel Martínez » Thu Sep 13, 2012 8:18 am

Hi Greg,

Acantophis is not a true viper, but is as cool as any viper, including caudal luring! Hope that you enjoy in Italy with the interesting aspis

Cheers from Madrid
User avatar
Gabriel Martínez
 
Posts: 436
Joined: Wed Sep 08, 2010 1:24 pm
Hometown: Madrid
country: Spain

Re: Hi from Australia and Italy

Postby Greg Wallis » Sat Nov 10, 2012 11:29 am

Thanks for the welcome. My time in Europe has now come to an end and I'm heading home to late spring which is good news. I will post some video and photos in the relevant areas of the forum if you want to have a look and try and update you from Australia every now and then.
Greg Wallis
 
Posts: 3
Joined: Tue Sep 11, 2012 4:08 pm
Hometown: melbourne
country: australia


Return to Introduce yourself

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 5 guests