And there was this years trip to Greece over, unfortunatly..
Last year we split our trip in two, and spent half of it in Epirus (north-western Greece) and the last half on Corfu. That time we got rather cold and wet weather when we where in Epirus, and our finds there wasn't all that. But it was not all bad, and on Corfu we har great weather. This year we decided to be in Epirus the whole week, with our base as usual in Parga. From here it's only two hours trip up in the mountains to places like Metsovo
Before we left Norway heading for Greece it all forecasts said there should be rain every day.. Needless to say, they fortunatly where wrong. The weather even got a bit to good - with temperatures between 25 and 30 degrees down around Parga. We got some rain one day, and this was the day we where up in Metsovo looking for salamander - luck
All in all be identified 27 species, and most of them got photographed - we saw one snake species that we didn't get an ID on, so we will have to find that one again next year !
I will not bother you with to much talk (writing) - but get down to the pictures - I'll write scientific names on them, and add where they were found. If anyone should wonder about anything, from habitat to photographing techniques, don't hesitate to ask
Algyroides nigripunctatus
Valtos
A rather common species nearly everywhere - fantastic colors on the males
Testudo hermanni boettgeri
Kalodiki
Pelophylax sp (kuertmuelleri and epeiroticus)
Kalodiki
Elaphe quatuorlineata
Kalodiki
Lacerta trilineata
Kalodiki
Natrix tesselata,
Lake Ionnina
Natrix tesselata
Ammoudia
Natrix natrix persa
Ammoudia
Testudo marginata
Ammoudia
Hyla arborea
Tzara
Angius fragilis
Kalodiki
Hemidactylus turcicus
Valtos
Bombina variegate
Perdika
Mauremys rivulata
Perdika
Emys orbicularis
Kalodiki
Podarcis taurica
Kalodiki
Unfortunatly not any good pictures of the next species, but I'm very pleased that we found it
Salamandra salamandra
Metsovo
Hierophys gemonensis
Kalodiki
And at last, my favourite :
Vipera ammodytes
Kalodiki
Epirus, Greece. May 2013
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Re: Epirus, Greece. May 2013
Nice stuff Thor...i had no idea greece had some much diversity of herps...cool stuff!
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Re: Epirus, Greece. May 2013
Nice stuff and well done with the quatuorlineata.
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Re: Epirus, Greece. May 2013
Great post - I love those tortoises.
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Re: Epirus, Greece. May 2013
Awesome herps. Not to much from Europe on this forum.
Re: Epirus, Greece. May 2013
I do love your photo composition style.
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Re: Epirus, Greece. May 2013
... very nice, very nice... truly a must, get back to europe b4 i regret it, nice to see habitats at herp friendly latitudes that arent in a constant state of drought too. In responding to you, im also of course sending thnx & kudoes to your partners, & excellent choices too; especially the lady .. sorry someone had2 say it! :p
The green lacertids were awesome & the slowworm, which brings me to; no Sheltopusiks eh, or maybe they didnt hang around for the camera, ... id love a link to any good threads discussing them w/ their habitats.
One day i will learn to take pix as fine as you folks.
cheers, rxr (john - uk)
The green lacertids were awesome & the slowworm, which brings me to; no Sheltopusiks eh, or maybe they didnt hang around for the camera, ... id love a link to any good threads discussing them w/ their habitats.
One day i will learn to take pix as fine as you folks.
cheers, rxr (john - uk)
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Re: Epirus, Greece. May 2013
Not quite sure what you are saying though..sending thnx & kudoes to your partners, & excellent choices too; especially the lady .. sorry someone had2 say it! :p
As for Scheltopusiks, they where everywhere - I got pretty many decent shots of them last year, so we did'nt photograph them this year. But I'll see if I can't find something with them in..
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Re: Epirus, Greece. May 2013
A couple of habitat/surroundings shots
Kalodiki
Metsovo
Kalodiki
Kalodiki
There is a lot more habitat/biotope shots in my last thread from Epirus :
http://www.fieldherpforum.com/forum/vie ... lit=epirus
Kalodiki
Metsovo
Kalodiki
Kalodiki
There is a lot more habitat/biotope shots in my last thread from Epirus :
http://www.fieldherpforum.com/forum/vie ... lit=epirus
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Re: Epirus, Greece. May 2013
We must have similar taste, ammodytes is my favorite also from this set of photos!
Keep the updates coming Thor!
Keep the updates coming Thor!
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Re: Epirus, Greece. May 2013
Thanks Jim,
You must have great taste then
Updates from old and new trips will come!
You must have great taste then
Updates from old and new trips will come!