Swiss Trip (Vaud, Ticino)
Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2014 5:14 pmI made a short Trip to Switzerland (Sunday, Monday) to the Canton Vaud for some Asp-Fun.
I had the big luck that some Herping friends guided me.
But not only Asp were on my wish-list, I also want to see the very endangered Natrix Maura from Lac Leman.
We had the luck that we found 4 Baby Snakes by flipping stones in one Minute.
3 Natrix tessellate and one N. Maura.
After getting the first Target we were visiting three different areas and we found in every area asp-vipers.
Rocky area
Bush area
All in all we found 18 Aspis and I thought “WOW this is unbeatable it cannot be better”
The next Day I meet up with another friend.
In the first area we visited, we found some Lacerta bilineata
And one Hierophis viridiflavus
I think I lost a half Liter of Blood for this poor pic
And a few asp.
From other Spots
Of course we also saw a lot of Podarcis muralis, but just one pic of them.
All in all we visited also three different areas and found over 20 individuals!
What a Trip!!
My herping friend’s thanks for guiding me, thanks for trusting me, thanks for showing me your secret spots!
You made my Days!!!
I had the big luck that some Herping friends guided me.
But not only Asp were on my wish-list, I also want to see the very endangered Natrix Maura from Lac Leman.
We had the luck that we found 4 Baby Snakes by flipping stones in one Minute.
3 Natrix tessellate and one N. Maura.
After getting the first Target we were visiting three different areas and we found in every area asp-vipers.
Rocky area
Bush area
All in all we found 18 Aspis and I thought “WOW this is unbeatable it cannot be better”
The next Day I meet up with another friend.
In the first area we visited, we found some Lacerta bilineata
And one Hierophis viridiflavus
I think I lost a half Liter of Blood for this poor pic
And a few asp.
From other Spots
Of course we also saw a lot of Podarcis muralis, but just one pic of them.
All in all we visited also three different areas and found over 20 individuals!
What a Trip!!
My herping friend’s thanks for guiding me, thanks for trusting me, thanks for showing me your secret spots!
You made my Days!!!
I'm not too much surprised you found so many vipers there! The "palette" of colours is always impressive. Jürgen, I was wondering when you will share more vipers pictures for this new year. Well, this is now done. Some french vipers will be posted soon...