I could use some
Alytes up here
Pretty much everything has woken up around here by now. So far I've got 14 of our native 19 species this year - haven't looked for the remaining 5 or the aliens yet.
Latest addition was a cute little shiny thing suddenly wriggling about in the grass in front of me yesterday as I was sitting quietly looking at a dark adder waititng for it to come closer. I ended up spooking the adder when trying in vain to get decent pictures of the squirmy little critter
After a quiet couple of weeks as something almost like winterreturned at the start of April slightly better weather over the last few days has brought about a bit more activity. The sand lizards that came out a couple of weeks ago are now cleaner and - in the case of the males - beginning to get a little greener.
Also, the moor frogs are finally breeding (well, I guess by now they are just about done). Alas, no blue ones this year. In these parts colouration of breeding males seems to depend heavily on weather and / or water temperature. We don't see blue males at all locations, nor every year.
Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2012 8:22 am
