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- December 15th, 2021, 3:12 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: The ADD YOUR photos to this photo-post POST 📷
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Re: The ADD YOUR photos to this photo-post POST 📷
Cold and north I can deliver as well. Here 's an incredibly late end to the season. Monday, November 29, 45 miles north of Cold Bay, Alaska (and a few thousand miles east (or west, doesn't make much difference)), 34 F 261501877_1243487549463088_1959201153591677829_n.jpg Meanwhile, on the the other ...
- December 3rd, 2021, 5:07 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: The ADD YOUR photos to this photo-post POST 📷
- Replies: 24
- Views: 4321
Re: The ADD YOUR photos to this photo-post POST 📷
You're not the first
Yup.
Here's another viper from the same trip.
- December 2nd, 2021, 11:02 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: The ADD YOUR photos to this photo-post POST 📷
- Replies: 24
- Views: 4321
Re: The ADD YOUR photos to this photo-post POST 📷
Not an adder, though. 7489_dirty-snake-6.jpg ...but yes, a gray day. Nice spot, however . P1080875a.JPG As for adders, here's three. P1030042a(2).JPG Saugas are nice. Also seem the most adder like of rattlers. Cold and north I can deliver as well. Here 's an incredibly late end to the season. Monday...
- December 1st, 2021, 1:30 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: The ADD YOUR photos to this photo-post POST 📷
- Replies: 24
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Re: The ADD YOUR photos to this photo-post POST 📷
I'll play.
Favorite moment of an - admittedly slow - 2021 herping season
Favorite moment of an - admittedly slow - 2021 herping season
- November 18th, 2020, 4:15 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Wisconsin Hognose observations 2020
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3978
Re: Wisconsin Hognose observations 2020
Another fleeting theory is that there has been a shift in abundance of toad species, with the Gulf Coast toad becoming dominant in habitats previously dominated by Fowler's and Southern toads. Perhaps hognoses eventually succumb to a diet solely of GC toads. A couple of nature center folks have tol...
- November 13th, 2020, 3:25 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Bornean Earless Monitor (Lanthanotus borneensis) - THE BOOK
- Replies: 20
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Re: Bornean Earless Monitor (Lanthanotus borneensis) - THE BOOK
Thanks for the teaser, Hans, looking forward to the book. As I guess pretty much everyone else around here I've always been a fan of your writing but this is good even by your standards. Inspires me to get started on my own reports again. Atm I'm some 3+ years behind with a couple of nearly finished...
- November 13th, 2019, 6:46 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Moving back to Taiwan, plus a great Christmas book gift for your herping friends (and yourself)
- Replies: 4
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Re: Moving back to Taiwan, plus a great Christmas book gift for your herping friends (and yourself)
A sign of life - great! (this from someone who's also gone shamefully quiet in recent years :oops: ) Miss your posts - hope to see a new wave starting as you return with a new view on your old home. Good luck wth the relocation and finishing the book :) ...oh, and three snake species? You have six! ...
- November 13th, 2019, 5:18 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: The day the music died.
- Replies: 7
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- November 4th, 2019, 7:09 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: The day the music died.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6062
Re: The day the music died.
In the aftermath I searched Wayback Machine for specific posts. There's a bunch of stuff there, of course, but not the posts I was looking for
- May 4th, 2019, 12:26 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Mint chocolate chip
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Mint chocolate chip
...was always my favourite flavour growing up. This guy, out cruising for some tail today, reminded me. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/32830093387_69d0b7fb82_b.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/47773729301_2831dbb7ce_b.jpg Unfortunately, the scent he followed soon led him back into the th...
Re: Sick
Many of our vipers - particularly the lower-latitude or -elevation ones - are also predominantly opportunistic and solitary in their overwintering. But of yours - I wonder about some of the ones in harsher situations, like at 1500m in the Urals or Carpathians. I'd think safe dens would be quite a l...
Re: Sick
Thanks, Jimi :) I look forward to reading the paper when I have a few minutes... I am by no means an expert on over wintering but overall I think our European vipers don't take communal denning to the extremes your pit vipers do. While they do mostly return to the same spots these need not accommoda...
Re: Sick
Nice Kris, real nice. Love those adders, esp the blackies. Just curious - do you have any idea how old is that rock wall that the animals are using as a hibernaculum? There are of course many, many instances of wildlife taking advantage of human modifications of nature, but I'm sort of interested i...
Re: Sick
Editi: Too bad you can't just delete accidental comments any more. Ah well... Thanks Bryan :) ...& yes, I'm fine again - a little field time works wonders. The grass frog mating season started today in the ditch I pass every day en route to & from work. With a little luck that means there w...
Re: Sick
Thanks Bryan :) ...& yes, I'm fine again - a little field time works wonders. The grass frog mating season started today in the ditch I pass every day en route to & from work. With a little luck that means there will be blue moor frogs in the woods this weekend. They're usually just a few da...
Re: Sick
At this time of year so much is happening it's interesting to follow day by day, when possible. I did the same round today at the same time of day in somewhat similar conditions - 1-2 degrees colder, but a bit sunnier. Adder wise the result was similar, 9 specimens, 8 of them also seen yesterday, 1 ...
Sick
I usually say I don't get sick. When, on rare occasion, I do catch a common cold it tends to build up slowly over a couple of days. Friday afternoon it hit me like a sledgehammer. Saturday morning it was worse. I spent half a day in bed with the man flu, mucus dripping from my clogged up nose, sneez...
- February 17th, 2019, 7:20 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Feb 16, 45 miles north of Cold Bay, Alaska
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Re: Feb 16, 45 miles north of Cold Bay, Alaska
Thanks Bill, ...and yes, 45 miles north but 4700+ miles east (or west, doesn't make much difference) in northern Zealand, Denmark :-) Relative to our latitude we have very mild winters due to the warming effect of the Gulf Stream and adder emergence around the beginning of March is quite normal. Thi...
- February 16th, 2019, 9:30 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Feb 16, 45 miles north of Cold Bay, Alaska
- Replies: 2
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- December 30th, 2018, 7:30 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: 2018 EOY Recap
- Replies: 18
- Views: 11630
Re: 2018 EOY Recap
Amazing as always.
Thanks for taking the time to put it together again this year, Frank.
...really hope to make it bakc to west TX some time...
Thanks for taking the time to put it together again this year, Frank.
...really hope to make it bakc to west TX some time...
- December 15th, 2018, 2:57 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: EOY 2018 - Lots of Lampro - (TX, WA, OR, CA, CO, LA)
- Replies: 23
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Re: EOY 2018 - Lots of Lampro - (TX, WA, OR, CA, CO, LA)
Always a joy to read your EOY posts, Kyle.
Thanks for taking the time to put one together again this year.
Thanks for taking the time to put one together again this year.
- December 4th, 2018, 3:17 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Season's end - November Boston business trip
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7178
Re: Season's end - November Boston business trip
The deer/hare thing interests me - is it a disease thing, or browse competition, or what? And, why have the deer exploded? Less agriculture? Less hunting? Easier winters? It's probably wrong of me to say "at the expense of" since the two trends are likely not directly related, though indi...
- December 4th, 2018, 11:47 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Season's end - November Boston business trip
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7178
Re: Season's end - November Boston business trip
Thanks for the reply, Jimi :) The wood turtle was great, always nice to find it when you're just about to give up. As for Lyme disease, it's all too common here in Denmark as well, the deer population having exploded over the past several decades (at the expense of the hares), so tick checks are par...
- December 1st, 2018, 11:17 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Season's end - November Boston business trip
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7178
Re: Season's end - November Boston business trip
I was wondering about whether that might be the cause. As a European I have not prevously encountered Ophidiomyces so I do not recognize it. I know it is found elsewhere in Massachusetts as well as near this location in New Hampshire. Whether it has been recorded from this particular area I don't kn...
- December 1st, 2018, 11:16 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Season's end - November Boston business trip
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7178
Season's end - November Boston business trip
I am quite a few reports behind by now, in part, perhaps, because I've been busy, but mostly, I guess, because finds the last last year and a bit have been overall a bit less than stellar and it's always more fun to write when there's something to brag about, plus the general trend away from this a...
- September 4th, 2018, 11:57 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Snake Photos for Education
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Re: Snake Photos for Education
Somewhat arbitrary collection added quickly clcking thumbnails more or less at random.
If you have any specific image types you're missing - in terms of species, behaviour, habitat, whatever, just say so, and I'll be happy to trawl through my album for something fitting.
If you have any specific image types you're missing - in terms of species, behaviour, habitat, whatever, just say so, and I'll be happy to trawl through my album for something fitting.
- September 4th, 2018, 1:19 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Snake Photos for Education
- Replies: 9
- Views: 11803
Re: Snake Photos for Education
What kind of pictures do you want?
- July 30th, 2018, 6:50 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Boston area, early November
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- Views: 6355
Boston area, early November
Hi all, I'm a Danish herper visiting Boston for work the first week of November. Some of you might remember me from earlier forum posts (Israel, Denmark, Texas, Greece, Spain, Croatia, etc...) though I have been less active here lately. While of course I realize that November is not exactly prime he...
- August 27th, 2017, 1:03 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: This week in Copenhagen, blue esculentus and alien alpestris
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This week in Copenhagen, blue esculentus and alien alpestris
Copenhagen herping is usually pretty uneventful. This past week, however, a couple of quite surprising critters showed up. On Tuesday, reports surfaced of a couple of alpine newts being found in the woods on the grounds of a castle in the northern suburbs. Alpine newts are in Denmark restricted to t...
- July 20th, 2017, 9:38 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Of mountains, lakes and human fish - Slovenian vacation
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Re: Of mountains, lakes and human fish - Slovenian vacation
Thanks, Jeff :-) Pelias basking on a rock in a stream! The lake (perhaps I should say pond) was immediately next to a popular hiking path and the rock no more than a couple of meters from the shore. It was quite near the cabin and we had just started out on our hike when I realized we had left the s...
- July 18th, 2017, 4:44 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Of mountains, lakes and human fish - Slovenian vacation
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4223
Re: Of mountains, lakes and human fish - Slovenian vacation
Thanks for the kind words, Tamara
- July 16th, 2017, 12:07 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Of mountains, lakes and human fish - Slovenian vacation
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4223
Of mountains, lakes and human fish - Slovenian vacation
This year's family vacation went to Slovenia, a week based in a village in the Julian Alps and stops on the way to and from in Thuringia, Bavaria and Salzburg. We had a wonderful trip, hiking in the stunning scenery of Triglav National Park and swimming in crystal clear lakes. On some of our recent ...
- June 7th, 2017, 12:17 pm
- Forum: Image Lab
- Topic: Camera recommendations?
- Replies: 0
- Views: 13362
Camera recommendations?
Hi, I'm in the market for a new camera and thought I'd solicit some recommendations. Background info is I'm a crappy photographer with very little interest in gear in the market for a versatile and sturdy p&s camera with a price tag below 300$. For years I've had various Panasonic Lumix models b...
- June 5th, 2017, 4:16 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Danish Texas family visit, April 2017
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5994
Re: Danish Texas family visit, April 2017
Thanks, Pete.
- always nice to know someone appreciates it when you spend time putting a report together
- always nice to know someone appreciates it when you spend time putting a report together
- June 4th, 2017, 12:59 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Three days in Israel - May 2017
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- Views: 3609
Re: Three days in Israel - May 2017
I hear you. But, "Geoshit"? Oh, that's terrible ! How would she feel about Armenia? Azerbaijan? For the short trips, how do you feel about staying in your time zone? I kind of like that. Georgia being shot down half jokingly I suggested Uzbekistan. That didn't fare any better. Pauline is ...
- June 3rd, 2017, 1:32 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Three days in Israel - May 2017
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3609
Re: Three days in Israel - May 2017
Thanks for the kind words, Jimi :) I have to ask - what are these "communication holes" of which you speak? Some IDF thing? Are they legacies of former conflicts, or part of some civilian or military system that is still maintained? Do they function as large pitfall traps? I mean, dead cam...
- June 2nd, 2017, 1:07 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Three days in Israel - May 2017
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3609
Three days in Israel - May 2017
Springtime in Denmark is wonderful – not only because the sun comes out, days get longer, it gets warmer, trees are budding, reptiles emerge from hibernation, amphibians are breeding, etc. but also because there's a bunch of national holidays all crammed together within the space of about a month an...
- May 31st, 2017, 12:29 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Danish Texas family visit, April 2017
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5994
Re: Danish Texas family visit, April 2017
Thank you very much, Jimi.
That is perhaps the nicest comment I have ever received for any of my reports.
I would be very happy and proud if your asessment were even half right.
...and yes, they are indulgent. I am blessed that way.
That is perhaps the nicest comment I have ever received for any of my reports.
I would be very happy and proud if your asessment were even half right.
...and yes, they are indulgent. I am blessed that way.
- May 29th, 2017, 10:08 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Danish Texas family visit, April 2017
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5994
Re: Texas family visit, April 2017
Thanks for the kind words to both of you.
- May 29th, 2017, 10:07 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Patternless N.e. transversa?
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- Views: 3327
Re: Patternless N.e. transversa?
I know.Jeff wrote:It's a Cottonmouth
I found out as much in the meantime.
Thanks anyway
- May 27th, 2017, 1:44 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Danish Texas family visit, April 2017
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5994
Danish Texas family visit, April 2017
Dislaimer #1: The report below was originally written for a European forum. I'm sorry, but I couldn't be bothered to rewrite for a predominantly American audience. I hope some of you will enjoy it anyway and not get too annoyed at all the seemingly redundant local information you might take for gra...
- May 26th, 2017, 12:18 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Patternless N.e. transversa?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3327
Re: Patternless N.e. transversa?
My experience says that the snakes you are seeing that appear "patternless" are in fact just muddy. I have captured numerous (hundreds) individuals that first appear "patternless" and after a good PIT tag and messing with, they soon show their true characteristics. I will ask a ...
- May 22nd, 2017, 12:05 pm
- Forum: Image Lab
- Topic: It's been too long since we've had an in situ theme thread..
- Replies: 212
- Views: 868504
Re: It's been too long since we've had an in situ theme thre
Thanks, Anton.
Nice frogpic.
...from the rare to the abundant:
Nice frogpic.
...from the rare to the abundant:
- May 20th, 2017, 7:22 am
- Forum: Image Lab
- Topic: It's been too long since we've had an in situ theme thread..
- Replies: 212
- Views: 868504
- May 19th, 2017, 8:52 am
- Forum: Image Lab
- Topic: It's been too long since we've had an in situ theme thread..
- Replies: 212
- Views: 868504
Re: It's been too long since we've had an in situ theme thre
Pretty sure we haven't had any of these on fhf (and don't think I've ever seen an in situ pic of one anywhere...)
- May 2nd, 2017, 11:13 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Patternless N.e. transversa?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3327
Patternless N.e. transversa?
Dane here seeking the help of some Texas herpers with local expertise... Along with my famiily I visited my sister in The Woodlands last month. After a day and a half we headed west with our first stop at Hamilton Pool. At this point already having seen several yellowbellied water snakes in East Tex...
- April 22nd, 2017, 12:59 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: West TX Aspidoscelis id q's (same as main board)
- Replies: 0
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West TX Aspidoscelis id q's (same as main board)
I'm terrible at Aspidoscelis id's - have a few crappy pics from a trip to west TX last week, hope someone can help out. ...& I know, I really should have taken care to get better shots, sorry. #1: Chihuahuan Desert Research Institute - very uncertain https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2922/3381808996...
- April 22nd, 2017, 12:08 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: West TX Aspidoscelis ID ?'s
- Replies: 0
- Views: 3556
West TX Aspidoscelis ID ?'s
I'm terrible at Aspidoscelis id's - have a few crappy pics from a trip to west TX last week, hope someone can help out. ...& I know, I really should have taken care to get better shots, sorry. #1: Chihuahuan Desert Research Institute - very uncertain https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2922/3381808996...
- March 18th, 2017, 12:51 pm
- Forum: Image Lab
- Topic: White balance question
- Replies: 2
- Views: 13410
White balance question
Question from a terrible photographer sadly lacking in technical understanding: When I look at my photos on my camera they look fine. When I upload them to my desktop and look at them on my screen they look horrible. The temperature is completely messed up. When I look at other people's pictures on ...
- January 28th, 2017, 11:33 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Snakes In Situ, Partially Hiding - Request for Images
- Replies: 28
- Views: 15611
Re: Snakes In Situ, Partially Hiding - Request for Images
I used to have tons of these. Unfortunately, lots were crap, lots were lost in a hard disk crash (the stupid didn't have backup). I still have some, I guess, but the question is, what constitutes "partially hiding"? Here are at least a few that might qualify. I think I still have poor pics...