19 years ago (omg…) Simi and I went on a spontaneous trip to Greece. We had no specific plans - only the flight to Athens was booked, and from there we just went wherever the first ships took us. So we ended up on the islands Chios and Milos.
It was already quite late in the year, early November, so we were really happy about every animal we saw.
Luckily, we found some very characteristic species on both islands, like the Milos viper or the Ottoman viper.
Since this was the only trip where I took my grandfather’s analogue Olympus OM-2 camera, I’m only posting analogue slides from this holiday 😊
Macrovipera schweizeri / Milos viper, Stellagama stellio / starred agama
Here and following pictures: some impressions from the greek islands Milos and Chios
Some more pictures I didn't upload so far.🙂 I think it was a spontanous three days trip to Italy and we found species I really wanted to see: Vipera aspis (Aspisviper/asp viper), Algyroides nigropunctatus (Prachtkieleidechse / blue-throated keeled lizard) and Hierophis viridiflavus (Gelbgrüne Zornnatter / western whip snake).
Algyrioides nigropunctatus and Lacerta sp. (Adriatic lineage of viridis/bilineata-group)
Lacerta sp. (Adriatic lineage of viridis/bilineata-group) and Hierophis viridiflavus
As mentioned before, because of my CFS condition I am limited to uploading old pictures – and that at very slow pace.
This time they're from an excursion to the surroundings of lake vrana in Croatia, back in 2010, which I did with some fellows from the Austrian Herpetological Society (ÖGH, the majority also belonging to the herpetofauna.at-Team).
I cannot remember much, but these ÖGH field trips are usually nice and relaxed, with a good balance of searching/photographing animals and relaxing together over a beer or coffee. And based on the excursion participants it can only have been a very nice time 🙂
The big highlight of a Balkans trip, and usually very hard to find: Zamenis situla / Leopardnatter / leopard snake
A quite common find in Croatia: Euscorpius sp., a group of small, +/- harmless scorpions
One of the typical lizard species for the coastal regions of Croatia: Lacerta trilineata / Riesensmaragdeidechse / Balkan green lizard. Here a juvenile specimen with the three stripes that give it its latin name.
And here a heap of other pictures from that field trip 🙂
Macrovipera schweizeri / Milos viper, Stellagama stellio / starred agama
Here and following pictures: some impressions from the greek islands Milos and Chios
Algyrioides nigropunctatus and Lacerta sp. (Adriatic lineage of viridis/bilineata-group)
Lacerta sp. (Adriatic lineage of viridis/bilineata-group) and Hierophis viridiflavus
Vipera aspis, Podarcis muralis
The big highlight of a Balkans trip, and usually very hard to find: Zamenis situla / Leopardnatter / leopard snake
A quite common find in Croatia: Euscorpius sp., a group of small, +/- harmless scorpions
One of the typical lizard species for the coastal regions of Croatia: Lacerta trilineata / Riesensmaragdeidechse / Balkan green lizard. Here a juvenile specimen with the three stripes that give it its latin name.
