On thursday I was again looking for coronella. Unfortunately the weather was too good and a lot of sun came through the thin clouds. Then within a few minutes there came a hot summer rain. I just found 5 coronalle that day :-/
Yesterday the forecast was really bad (rain), but around 13:00 I noticed that this was wrong, nearly no rain so far!
So I drove to my berus area. When I arrived it was around 23°C, the gras was somehow wet, no rain, no sun ...but immediatly it startet to "rain".
The next hours the weather was changing every minute (5% sunshine, 5% rain, 10% soft rain, 30% really dark clouds, 50% snake hunting clouds
After around 3 hours of this crazy snake weather the sun came out and nearly all snakes disappeared...
Comparing the numbers I found yesterday with the average and record numbers of the last 5 years ( 22days in the field, for that area and early august ) I found:
333% of the average berus numbers
1000% of the average natrix numbers
385% of the average fragilis numbers
or
130 % of the record berus numbers
114 % of the average natrix numbers
71 % of the average fragilis numbers
so, to make a long story short, if you think its too bad for herping simply go out and try it....it´s worth the risk to fail!