the most trivial kind of herping joy

[Jeroen Speybroeck]

A new herp species in the garden (sets the total n° of species to a smashing total of 3, next to common toad and alpine newt)...



Anyone else would like to show her/his garden herps? Don't think we had a thread like that before.

(( wasn't hopping all too strongly - look at that spot that looks like a cigarette burn..? ))

[Borji Heras]

unfortunately i havent a garden,but nice thread! do you have any pond!?or they just appear?

[Vlad Cioflec]

Congratz Jeroen!

My garden list (in-laws house) has just one position, but i`m damn proud of that population of about a dozen individuals. Some have even learned to take bugs right from my hand. Yessireebob I love them Green Toads.

[Ray Hamilton]

Not sure why but G.C.Newts regularly turn up in our little garden. There are no sizeable ponds in any of the neighbouring houses and all we have is a couple of buckets sunk in the ground with rainwater in. Always nice to find them about though.


Defensive Tail Curling in Great Crested Newt - (Triturus cristatus)


Great Crested Newt (Triturus cristatus)



Wish we had B.viridis!!

[Stéphane Aubry]

Unfortunately, no garden but there is a railway 30 meters from the house. In the grassy bank of this railway we have Podarcis muralis, Anguis fragilis and I heard Alytes obstetricans.
3 species too

[Jürgen Gebhart]

From time to time I saw a few Bufo bufo and Rana temporaria in my Garden.
Wish to have some Reptiles.

[Rok Grzelj]

It seems that amphibians and also reptiles likes my garden pond(NO FISH)...and surroundings..
Bufo bufo

Rana dalmatina

Rana temporaria


...also Natrix natrix,Anguis fragils,Coronella austriaca and Podacris muralis can be found around the pond and the house

[Ray Hamilton]

Rok Grzelj.
..also Natrix natrix,Anguis fragils,Coronella austriaca and Podacris muralis can be found around the pond and the house

How about a house swap?

[Bobby Bok]

Nothing special really, Rana temporaria breeds in my garden pond and occasionally Lissotriton vulgaris, Ichthyosaura alpestris and Bufo bufo turn up. Just behind my house in the polders lots of Pelophylax ridibundus and Bufo calamita. A bit further in the dunes Lacerta agilis and Pelophylax lessonae complete the list.

[Kevin Byrnes]

No reptiles in our garden but in our small pond we have R temporaria,T cristatus and L vulgaris, sometimes B bufo is spotted in the garden.