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: Published: 22 April 2012

The second larger trip was going to the area of Zadar and surroundings. Despite suboptimal weather we managed to find some very interesting species, including lots of horned vipers :)

First day and superstrike (thxalot to Attila ;-) )! After don't know how often in Croatia - the first alive leopard snake

..just happy :-)

Definitely the most beautiful snake in europe.. and at the most places really hard to find

weather was really cold..

Euscorpius sp.

Some italian wall lizards basking

yess - first horned viper, thxalot again to attila, he saw it out of the driving car (!) basking on the base on a stonewall

and yesss No 2 - juvenile nontpellier snake

most likely Common Kestrel resting

hehe, there's a treasure everywhere!

in this case called house centipede, actually quite poisonous

it pays off when you crawl around on the bathroom floor!

juvenile balkan green lizard

and sleeping adult male

..and some other horny horned vipers!

One of the coolest snakes of europe.. an adult montpellier snake

After an heroic jump over a wall (and due to that - before some hrs in hospital ^^)

the bridge from vir to the mainland

if you see somewhere guys lying around like this they most like click some kritters ;-)

Vir in front, Velebit behind

One of the most interesting observation was a skrimish between two italian wall lizards. The smaller one was really brave, but in the end it had to make room and leave the basking spot:

at last i found some time to work through the pictures of the fieldtrips in march and april! Let's start with the end of march, where i joined my also-herpetophilic croatian friends on their fieldwork with common adders:

The second part makes a trip to the island of Krk. Also fieldwork with the croatian special taskforce for big black ones ;-) Main goal of this trip was to collect data about the occurence of reptile and amphibian species in a certain area.

There we learned: There's nothing more scary than scared horses galopping towards you around midnight. Seriously.. But we also survived it aaand, the most cooles thing, Igor found an alive cat-snake! The cat-snake is like the second holy grail of the croatian herpeofauna, first is the leopard snake, to which we will come later on ;-)

More soon! Meanwhile - and fitting today saturday evening - one of the greatest party-songs on the balkans: Dubioza Kolektiv - Marijuana !

Oja, es tut sich noch was..

: Published: 17 April 2012

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.. just unfortunately nothing obvious.. thanks to my encyclopaedic knowledge in joomla and programing in general it took me just 3 hrs to put the caption of "Table of Contents" on the right place ^^
In my defense - for that I also put up a testing system in another directory (and for that i can really recommend AkeebaBackup).

In the meantime, that you don't get completely bored (uhm.. yeah this may depend on your interests..), have a look at the homepages from Felix Wesch and Frank Sudendey if you want to see really great nature photography (.. and proper webdesign..).

Maybe later this week I'll add some pics from my last exkursions on Krk and Vir et al. Both excursions' motto you can see on the right pic - there's a treasure everywhere! ;-)

German version: alles leiwand!

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Oja, es tut sich noch was..