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Center France

PostPosted: Sun May 11, 2014 9:27 pm
by Rick Bierman
Last week, I was in La Brenne. A national park in center France. We had some bad weather, but had some luck too.
Here some lucky moments ;)

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Angius fragilis
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Lissotriton helveticus
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We found a lot of common wall lizards. At some place, we found about some 100 of them
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Podarcis muralis
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A juvenile viperine snake
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Natrix maura
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Zamenis longissimus
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Vipera aspis
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Some juveniles off Aesculapian snake
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Zamenis longissimus
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Triturus cristatus
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Pelodytes punctatus
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Hierophis vividiflavus
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Some sommon treefrogs just get married. They have a wedding night..
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Hyla arborea amplex
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Pelodytes punctatus
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Natrix natrix
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Natrix natrix
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Emys orbicularis
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Vipera apsis
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We almost mistake the viper. Trough thebad coloring, we thought to see a natrix maura
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Vipera aspis
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Every evening, we found a lot of common treefrogs calling
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Hyla arborae
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Salamandra salamandra
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subadult aesculapian snake
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Zamenis longissimus
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Lacerta bilineata
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Grz Rick Bierman

For more phot's and the hole trip, see http://rick11tallen.wix.com/fieldphotos#!la-brenne/c1atz

Re: Center France

PostPosted: Mon May 12, 2014 6:07 am
by Mario Schweiger
A lot of species there ;)
nice report!

Mario

Re: Center France

PostPosted: Mon May 12, 2014 11:51 am
by Ronald Zimmerman
You had to work hard for it, but you found a lot of great species :) Good report! :)

Re: Center France

PostPosted: Mon May 12, 2014 2:26 pm
by Bobby Bok
Great findings of a special place in Europe!

Re: Center France

PostPosted: Mon May 12, 2014 4:18 pm
by Niklas Ban
Saw your Hierophis already on Facebook I love this individual very very nice one!

Re: Center France

PostPosted: Mon May 12, 2014 7:04 pm
by Laura Bok
Very nice - you saw a lot of animals and took some very beautiful photos! I especially like the picture of the dark Anguis fragilis and Hyla arborea in amplexus. And the Hierophis viridiflavus is indeed stunning! Thanks for sharing!