Some winter wall lizards from today

[Sandra Panienka]

Finally some sun!!!! And is there anything better than visiting some basking wall lizards. I went down to the Neckar earlier today and played wall lizard paparazzi. The tempreature was around 7°C, a bit chilly and the wind made my ears hurt.

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[Mario Schweiger]

fortunately lizards have no outside ears
nice observations!

Mario

[Tomas Klacek]

Nice photos and observation. Today I was curious, if salamanders would be out, but I found nothing. 7 °C, but too drought. So at least a habitat shot...

[Jürgen Gebhart]

Nice!!!
but no black beauties?

[Sandra Panienka]

Sadly, no black beauties. I have no idea if they are still alive, but I only found 10 specimen today, so they may still be there.

@Tomas: Nice habitat shot!! I fear that I won't see any salamanders before Friday. It is a bit too cold after dark. We had really great weather for salamanders on the 24th (15.5°C!) but unfortunately the family was visiting. *g*

[Guillaume Gomard]

Cool observation Sandra! I've been to Odenwald, Hesse, today but no Podarcis. I should have moved to Neckar as well Was it directly inside Heidelberg?

[Sandra Panienka]

Guillaume, where have you been to? And yes, they are the downtown wall lizards. It is actually quite funny, no one really realizes that they are there. When I start taking pictures people usually stop next to me and are quite surprised.

[Andre Schmid]

Very cool ! I also have to visit the more south neckar muralis the next days again before its getting cold in january like the last year

[Sandra Panienka]

I went to the P.m. nigriventris spot today, but only found four juveniles, managed to take pics of only one of them. Still only 7°C but a lot more comfortable without the wind.

So here it is, my last herp of 2013. Looking forward to 2014. Have a good "Rutsch". ;O)