Easter herping and video

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Easter herping and video

Postby Martti Niskanen » Tue Apr 26, 2011 1:33 pm

Finnish herping again. With only a small number of species around, we're stuck looking for the same species all over and over again (not complaining) in different locations and habitats. We went to our summer house for Easter and as the weather was lovely (Got to 22C), the herps were out.

Saw this pre-shed, blue male adder.
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Female Common lizard Zootoca vivipara.
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Came across something I had never seen before. Common frogs Rana temporaria overwinter mostly in the water at these latitudes as the environment is more stable than when going underground. We had a lot of ice this year and it seems that these individuals had chosen to stay in too shallow water and were either frozen through, crushed by the dropping ice level, or both.

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Put my video camera to good use again, so here are a couple of takes of me explaining it:
http://youtu.be/XJvv30f649w
http://youtu.be/xrKiQ5qxnCk

And a couple of non-herping related photos. The good thing about the cold water is that it keeps both the beer and the herpers nice and cool:

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Cheers

Martti
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Re: Easter herping and video

Postby Vlad Cioflec » Tue Apr 26, 2011 2:18 pm

My kind of shot right here:
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Thanks for sharing!
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