I`m out!!!! (Excuse me?)

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I`m out!!!! (Excuse me?)

Postby Jürgen Gebhart » Mon May 07, 2012 7:17 pm

I change my mind, I´m out now of these fieldherping things.
Maybe not the best moment, a few Days before, how some fieldherper call it, the season highlight trip comes. (Sorry Paul)
But it is, like it is.

I`m now into these birding things.
I made a few pics the last Days and I enjoyed it very much! Much easier as looking for Herps. It´s much better for your posture to walk with your head up as with head down.


Woodpecker
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Great crested grebe
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Air fight, Raven against Buzzard
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Black Kite
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Hope I can show you more the next Days.
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Re: I`m out!!!!

Postby Jeroen Speybroeck » Mon May 07, 2012 7:42 pm

In all fairness, I think you should change your avatar.

And be ashamed of yourself.

Very ashamed.
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Re: I`m out!!!!

Postby Rok Grzelj » Mon May 07, 2012 8:10 pm

Somehow I agree with Jürgen....maybe its more orthopedic to change the head position from looking down to look up...
...and see the light...the infinity of the universe...and maybe sometimes spot a snake having a snack in a bird nest ;-)
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Re: I`m out!!!!

Postby Jürgen Gebhart » Mon May 07, 2012 8:38 pm

Jeroen Speybroeck wrote:In all fairness, I think you should change your avatar.


Jeroen, Thank you very much for your advice!

Done!!
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Re: I`m out!!!!

Postby Stéphane Aubry » Mon May 07, 2012 8:45 pm

Rok Grzelj wrote:....maybe its more orthopedic to change the head position from looking down...


I did exactly the opposite since the beginning of the year and now I have no more pain in the neck :mrgreen:
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Re: I`m out!!!!

Postby Jeroen Speybroeck » Tue May 08, 2012 9:06 am

Jürgen Gebhart wrote:
Jeroen Speybroeck wrote:In all fairness, I think you should change your avatar.


Jeroen, Thank you very much for your advice!

Done!!


:lol: :lol: :lol:

Jürgen, you're killing me...
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Re: I`m out!!!!

Postby Sandra Panienka » Tue May 08, 2012 10:21 am

Jürgen Gebhart wrote:I`m now into these birding things.


Awesome, I'll join you. But I only do night time birding and bating. lol

Sleepy Tawny Owl:
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Re: I`m out!!!!

Postby Sean Cole » Tue May 08, 2012 8:30 pm

Jurgen, your woodpecker is Dendrocopos major, Great-spotted woodpecker, a female.

Now I know I'm on a Herping forum, but I am a birder of 33 years and have started looking down....so am pleased that open-minded herpers can also look up.

But too many times I've looked up to find birds with Amphibians, Lizards and snakes in the claws, but unlike the herpers I don't gain satisfaction from the competition, just awe at Nature's balance that allows us all to enjoy our own thing.

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Re: I`m out!!!!

Postby Jeroen Speybroeck » Tue May 08, 2012 10:41 pm

Sean Cole wrote:so am pleased that open-minded herpers can also look up

Whatever gave you that idea? :lol:

Sean Cole wrote:unlike the herpers I don't gain satisfaction from the competition

Merily a joke, dear sir.
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Re: I`m out!!!! (Excuse me?)

Postby Jürgen Gebhart » Wed May 09, 2012 4:16 pm

What have I done??????

I will never ever change my mind, I will always be a Fieldherper till the Day the hell freezes over!

I`m pumped up with Adrenalin.

No more clear thought, don`t find enough sleep at night, I`m going crazy!

I feel like a child waiting for Santa Claus.



Please take my Pardon.

Just two Days!!

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From left to right

Echis coloratus, Lacerta media israelica, Hyla savignyi/felixarabica

Stenodactylus doriae, Montevipera bornmuelleri, Cerastes cerastes

Pseudocerastes fildii, Daboia palaestinae, Chamaeleo chamaeleo recticrista

Platyceps collaris, Bufo viridis?, Phoenicolacerta kulzeri

Cerastes gasperetti mendelsohni, Laudakia stellio brachydactyla, Telescopus hogstralii
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