.. jupp, there are still some minor updates missing.. next week, in two weeks, ako bog da..

A small preview -- as nobody would have expected, it will be quite likely about this...  ;-)

 

 

And yes, this time it's not 100% cold blood but also some feathers and stuff...

 

 

... and some specials ...

 

 

PS: I think the biggest enlightenment within the last 15 years happened to me last week:

If I would go went there I would....

Autsch...

PPS: I would have never thought that there's even a grammar section on stackexchange.

 

 

...if you look close enough, you'll find common adders (Kreuzottern/Vipera berus) quite soon on one of the most famous and most frequented mountains of eastern austria, the Rax, even next to the hiking paths. But usually well hidden or well camouflaged by their back-pattern.

 

This night has been one of the very best recently. First of all there's been a really great birthday-camping-meeting, where we gathered at Klosterneuburg for an evening-to-morning relaxed hang-out. After going to bed, which meant sleeping under the open sky, i realized at 03:00 am, that my sleeping bag was getting wet due to kondensation. When I got up to think about the next step, i realised some very faint, white-ish milky glow in the far north-east right above the horizont. That made every alarm-clock in me ring like hell and, likely waking up everyone, i started to search in a decent hurry (...) for my camera, to confirm what i thought of. After taking the first pic it was clear -- my first ("knowingly") NLC-sighting ever!! After years and years of sporadically biking to the northern end of the danube-island at night...

 

 

The pictures were taken in between approx 03:00 and 03:45. In reality the contrast wasn't that high, and the NLC not that pronounced (long term exposure improves the visibility), but it was still a very clear and great display!

 

Detail of the "northern wing"	..and the "eastern wing"

 

 

..I'm really happy, great night with great people aaand the first NLC-sighting :-) More to read about NLCs: wikipedia [de, en], meteoros.de