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- January 28th, 2017, 11:06 am
- Forum: Image Lab
- Topic: It's been too long since we've had an in situ theme thread..
- Replies: 212
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Re: It's been too long since we've had an in situ theme thre
A few sunny Greek lizards... http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn26/krismunk2/P1060280%203.jpg http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn26/krismunk2/P1060353%202.jpg http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn26/krismunk2/P1060429%202.jpg http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn26/krismunk2/P1060512%202.jpg htt...
- January 27th, 2017, 12:13 pm
- Forum: Image Lab
- Topic: It's been too long since we've had an in situ theme thread..
- Replies: 212
- Views: 868476
- January 7th, 2017, 1:50 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: TX in April - visiting family
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1839
TX in April - visiting family
Hi there, I'm a Danish herper - occasional contributor since the precrash days - planning a visit to my sister and her family in the Woodlands in April, hoping for a few local herping tips & contacts. Some of you might remember me, for those that don't feel free to peruse my old posts from aroun...
- August 2nd, 2016, 10:59 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: NW Portugal & SW Galicia, July 2016 family vacation
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2664
NW Portugal & SW Galicia, July 2016 family vacation
Holiday time again... this time family vacation saw us in Northwestern Portugal and Southwestern Galicia, flying in and out of Porto July 11 and July 20 respectively. As always, we had to make time for bounty beaches, waterfall pools, museums, shopping, ice creams, tapas, cakes, wines and all sorts ...
- June 25th, 2016, 7:33 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Spadefoots/fossorial frogs, please
- Replies: 23
- Views: 11887
Re: Spadefoots/fossorial frogs, please
Thanks for the addition, Kristian, you've mentioned a couple of things I should have! (Mind you, though, that they do have vocal sacs, just not external ones.) In Belgium, the species is also extremely rare and endangered (although a new, sizeable population was discovered in 2015). More to the eas...
- June 25th, 2016, 2:57 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Spadefoots/fossorial frogs, please
- Replies: 23
- Views: 11887
Re: Spadefoots/fossorial frogs, please
I'm late to the party and my pics are crap, but I'm joining in anyway. We don't get those choruses since our European species don't have vocal sacs. Our local P. fuscus just make a low "tuk tuk... tuk tuk tuk..." call from the bottom of the breeding ponds. Depending on the depth from which...
- May 29th, 2016, 1:06 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Pelonnese solo quickie
- Replies: 16
- Views: 10614
Re: Pelonnese solo quickie
I'm really happy about all the replies from Americans expressing surprise at the diversity and a desire to go to Greece to herp based on the report, was hoping for some of them. Europe is often thought of as somewhat of a boring continent to herp but while it is true that overall diversity is lower ...
- May 24th, 2016, 11:10 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Pelonnese solo quickie
- Replies: 16
- Views: 10614
Re: Pelonnese solo quickie
Once again, thanks for the replies :) Wow! It looks like you found just about all the snakes of that area. Well done! I missed smooth snake & cat snake, don't think I was ever in range of aesculapian, but yeah, I'm not complaining. I love those whipsnakes! It's strange to me how they look so muc...
- May 6th, 2016, 2:45 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Pelonnese solo quickie
- Replies: 16
- Views: 10614
Re: Pelonnese solo quickie
Thanks for the replies to you guys as well.
It's always nice with a good response - particularly from people whose contributions I enjoy myself
...oh, and Chris, there are two in situ Eryx flipping pics
It's always nice with a good response - particularly from people whose contributions I enjoy myself
...oh, and Chris, there are two in situ Eryx flipping pics
- May 5th, 2016, 6:53 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Pelonnese solo quickie
- Replies: 16
- Views: 10614
Re: Pelonnese solo quickie
Thanks for the kind words, Jimi :) Danes also suffer the "use or lose" vacation time phenomenon at work, as we here in the US (makes it hard to stockpile for long long vacations!) Yes, but we all have 5 weeks of vacation, most of us have 6 and sometimes you can be allowed to stockpile at l...
- May 4th, 2016, 2:41 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Pelonnese solo quickie
- Replies: 16
- Views: 10614
Pelonnese solo quickie
…I know, sounds kind of sleazy, but really, it wasn’t - trust me :) Anyway, I had a few days of paid vacation left to spend before May 1st or forfeit so naturally I did a quick search for cheap airfare to some herpable destination. Flights to and from Athens, April 19th and 23rd gave me 3½ days in t...
- April 15th, 2016, 12:28 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Find the Herp - The Game
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5690
Re: Find the Herp - The Game
Yes, the copper is fairly easy. As for the first pic, cropping - or posting bigger pics - seems a better option than posting pics where you need to zoom, particularly when the resolution is really to low get a reasonably sharp image even with rather limited zoom. That said, I see something rather bl...
- April 15th, 2016, 11:25 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Find the Herp - The Game
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5690
Re: Find the Herp - The Game
As a European I'm not all that familiar with the different Pseudacris species, but I believe those markings fit with crucifer Roughly 30% up form the bottom of the pic, 40% in from the left. ...nice one, btw :) Edit: Just noticed, it was really Kelly's turn. Two pics in and we've already messed up t...
- March 21st, 2016, 4:10 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Nuthin' much...
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2722
Nuthin' much...
The onset of herping season after the withdrawal of a long dark winter always makes me want to shout from the rooftops - or at least post on some internet forum. This year, the wait lasted even longer than usual, as my new job has kept me busy and I haven't had the time to get out when the weather w...
- February 17th, 2016, 12:34 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: different snake species basking together?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 9955
Re: different snake species basking together?
Jeroen has seen these before... http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn26/krismunk2/P1020918%202.jpg http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn26/krismunk2/P10200371.jpg In Europe we see this quite often with adders and grass snakes. My own favourite experience of this kind - though one that I don't have p...
- January 23rd, 2016, 8:45 am
- Forum: Bird Forum
- Topic: What was your last lifer?...
- Replies: 381
- Views: 998127
Re: What was your last lifer?...
Black-throated thrush. Copenhagen, today. These days, I am not serious about birding (some would probably say I never really was). I am not an active member of the community, I don't "subscribe to the hotline", I don't twitch (much). Nonetheless, from time to time, when all other channels ...
- January 21st, 2016, 5:13 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Dangerfield Herps
- Replies: 21
- Views: 14729
Re: Dangerfield Herps
Copenhagen, Denmark Common toad, Bufo bufo http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn26/krismunk2/P10102971-1.jpg You will of course see these posted quite often in northern European reports but that's just because our diversity is so low we have to post everything :lol: ...kinda looks like Rodney too.
- January 21st, 2016, 5:07 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Post your 1 best photo from 2015!
- Replies: 61
- Views: 49332
Re: Post your 1 best photo from 2015!
Great selection that I can not even aspire to match. I am certainly not a photographer. I do not plan my photos, I do not combine multiple shots into one image (usually don't do any editing at all, except occasional cropping and - on rare occasions when I'm particularly displeased with the colours o...
- November 14th, 2015, 11:19 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Bipes rumor
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4339
Re: Bipes rumor
i posted some historical literature (on a friend's herping site) detailing Bipes from Central Ca, back in the Gold Rush days... i'll see if i can find it again It wouldn't happen to be this one? http://www.fieldherpforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5074&p=239008&hilit=bipes#p239008 Hi...
- October 31st, 2015, 12:14 am
- Forum: Mammal Forum
- Topic: What was your last lifer?
- Replies: 121
- Views: 191176
Re: What was your last lifer?
My recent herping trip to Spain didn't provide many mammals but I did get two lifers in ten minutes, the Medterranean water shrew and Spanish ibex.
- October 20th, 2015, 8:12 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Sistema Central, Spain, October 2015
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3010
Re: Sistema Central, Spain, October 2015
Thanks, Curtis
Those little jewels were a very welcome consolation prize indeed when the final half day's plans rained away, They deserve a better photographer, though.
Those little jewels were a very welcome consolation prize indeed when the final half day's plans rained away, They deserve a better photographer, though.
- October 18th, 2015, 2:43 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Denmark, summer 2015
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2505
Re: Denmark, summer 2015
Thanks to you guys as well :) I'm impressed with the frog/toad diversity For the rest of the species http://www.fieldherpforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=22024 ...and how beautiful Lacerta agilis juveniles are. I rather prefer the adult males, just a shame I can't ever seem to capture the gre...
- October 16th, 2015, 12:42 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Denmark, summer 2015
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2505
Re: Denmark, summer 2015
Thanks, Jimi :) Your country seems like it would be a neat place to buy a little plot of land (e.g., around that fir patch), restore or enhance its habitat functionality for your native biota, and dedicate it - perhaps upon one's death - as a nature preserve. Does anyone do that there? Is there a Na...
- October 15th, 2015, 2:54 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Denmark, summer 2015
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2505
Denmark, summer 2015
It's been a while since my last Denmark post (mid May) so as the season is closing down around here I thought it about time for an update. Trips abroad (Italy in July, Spain in October) are covered elsewhere. Normally, I like to include a little more natural history in my hosts (habitats, bugs, mamm...
- October 15th, 2015, 8:45 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Snake Identity
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2153
Re: Snake Identity
You need to use the link from the "Direct" button.SHELLFISH wrote:Having trouble posting a picture from photobucket. I tried the URL and Image buttons but neither put up the picture.
Above, it looks like you are using the one from the "Email & IM" button.
- October 14th, 2015, 2:07 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Summer vacation, western Liguria
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2165
Re: Summer vacation, western Liguria
Thanks, Chris :) Sounds like a relaxing vacation with a few herps thrown in for good measure. I'd say that's a pretty accurate assessment. How did the Balkan Water Frogs get there if they aren't native? Escaped food frogs? I googled it when you asked. According to a 1962 paper 7 breeding pairs were ...
- October 14th, 2015, 10:56 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Summer vacation, western Liguria
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2165
Summer vacation, western Liguria
The main selling points for field reports are generally impressively long species lists, striking photography, rare and exotic species, remarkable specimens and interesting behaviour. Since I have neither to show for this year's family vacation to Liguria I didn't think I'd get around to writing a r...
- October 14th, 2015, 8:48 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Sistema Central, Spain, October 2015
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3010
Sistema Central, Spain, October 2015
Preparations With limited time and money on my hands for herpetological travels I'm always on the lookout for a good deal on fitting dates. Never having been to the Iberian peninsula, oddly enough, this year I had Spain and Portugal in my sights. Towards the end of the season, it's nice with a litt...
- September 29th, 2015, 7:09 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: ID Black Snake from Lebanon
- Replies: 33
- Views: 12371
Re: ID Black Snake from Lebanon
Dolichophis jugularis
- September 18th, 2015, 8:23 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Need I'd please !!
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4216
Re: Need I'd please !!
Agreed.Josh Holbrook wrote:Tarentola annularis juvenile.
- August 31st, 2015, 11:55 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Both frog and toad ID please, Sweden.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1365
Re: Both frog and toad ID please, Sweden.
Yes and no. Moor frog has a sharper snout, usually a broad pale band on the back, ... so this is another grass frog. Well... While the ID's are of course correct, typical patterns of moor frogs differ across the range of the species and the striped form is actually not found in the southern half of...
- August 27th, 2015, 1:23 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Lizards Eating Insects and other Animals
- Replies: 22
- Views: 7913
Re: Lizards Eating Insects and other Animals
Ow yeah I would let go too.. :o As I recall it, the lizard seemed a bit stunned for a couple of seconds, then apparently shook it off and when on with its business looking no worse for wear but without reapproaching the injured centipede. Witnessing predation and predation attempts in the wild is a...
- August 26th, 2015, 4:49 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Lizards Eating Insects and other Animals
- Replies: 22
- Views: 7913
Re: Lizards Eating Insects and other Animals
Thanks for the input and so far its clear that the lizards presented have targeted and dispatched substantially larger prey items than the canonized recommendation of captive feeding practices - ie; sizing between the span of eye to eye. This is another example so far of how herp photography of wil...
- August 25th, 2015, 3:42 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Lizards Eating Insects and other Animals
- Replies: 22
- Views: 7913
Re: Lizards Eating Insects and other Animals
Acanthodactylus aegyptius from Israel with a beetle this year in May. http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn26/krismunk2/P1030362%202.jpg Marbled whiptail from Big Bend last October with pupa. http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn26/krismunk2/27.jpg I should have a few more of dubious photographic q...
- August 14th, 2015, 12:10 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Herper's picnic spot
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1779
Re: Herper's picnic spot
I don't know what species these are? Is it unusual to find this species in high abundance? Are these a bunch of young ones after a fresh hatch? It is quite the find; any ideas as to why? They are adult - perhaps some subadult - grass snakes, Natrix natrix , a common species around here though not u...
- August 13th, 2015, 8:10 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Herper's picnic spot
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1779
Herper's picnic spot
...so, I was walking in the woods the other day, came across a picnic spot complete with tables, benches, fireplace with grill and even a crate of firewood. Impressed, and curious as to whether it was stocked, I lifted the lid.
- August 4th, 2015, 12:30 pm
- Forum: Mammal Forum
- Topic: What was your last lifer?
- Replies: 121
- Views: 191176
Re: What was your last lifer?
I don't know about ibex in Austria but in Valais in Switzerland I've seen plenty up high - about 3000 m. ... & I don't have my summer pics in order yet, don't even know if I'll get around to posting anything but here's at least a token July berus. http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn26/krismunk...
- August 3rd, 2015, 12:42 am
- Forum: Mammal Forum
- Topic: What was your last lifer?
- Replies: 121
- Views: 191176
Re: What was your last lifer?
Love the atra photo - and the marmot :) I don't have any pics of alpine marmots myself, only seen them (lots & lots of them, though) on a hiking trip from Matterhorn to Mont Blanc way back in the pre-digital days. Back then I was even less of a photographer than I am today and I pretty much thou...
- August 2nd, 2015, 12:49 pm
- Forum: Image Lab
- Topic: Colour rendition - camera settings & editing - help, please.
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6514
Re: Colour rendition - camera settings & editing - help, ple
Thanks for the tips :) You might, at minimum, look into a gray card. That will help you set your white balance in the camera. I personally have an X-rite Passport Color Checker, which has a Lightroom plugin to create profiles specific to camera, lens, and lighting conditions to help get the proper c...
- August 1st, 2015, 12:37 pm
- Forum: Image Lab
- Topic: Colour rendition - camera settings & editing - help, please.
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6514
Colour rendition - camera settings & editing - help, please.
Not a serious photographer, by and large I'm happy with my camera, a Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ35. One of the main issues I do have is in regards to color rendition, particularly greens. Most of the time I don't really mind but there is one subject in relation to which it really bugs me, male Lacerta ag...
- August 1st, 2015, 11:38 am
- Forum: Mammal Forum
- Topic: What was your last lifer?
- Replies: 121
- Views: 191176
Re: What was your last lifer?
Just picked up a few more mammal lifers, nothing too impressive but did a bit of hiking in the Alps and saw my first Alpine Marmots (Marmota marmota). I also saw some sort of aquatic shrew running along the edge of a stream in the alps, very brief encounter lasting only about 10 seconds but I saw i...
- July 25th, 2015, 12:31 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: To share or not to share?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6179
Re: To share or not to share?
Edit: Mispost, sorry
- July 20th, 2015, 1:05 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Bioko Snake ID (Equatorial Guinea)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3489
Re: Bioko Snake ID (Equatorial Guinea)
Hapsidophrys sp. I thought of Philothamnus sp. at first, got curious, googled, discovered Hapsidophrys, distinguished from Philothamnus by the strongly keeled dorsal scales visible in your photo, and came across a biotic survey of Bioko - http://www.environment.ucla.edu/ctr/pdfs/CARPE1.PDF. In this...
- June 16th, 2015, 1:22 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: First half of 2015- part 1
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2762
Re: First half of 2015- part 1
Quite wonderful.
Thanks
Thanks
- June 7th, 2015, 4:32 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Herping Southern Germany Questions (?)s
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2081
Re: Herping Southern Germany Questions (?)s
Hi Anton, I don't have much to offer, seeing as I've never herped the area and in relation to a couple of your target species have only precious little experience (seen only one aspis and one larval Salamandra). Since noone else has replied yet I thought I'd give it a go nonetheless. For starters, h...
- June 4th, 2015, 9:00 am
- Forum: Image Lab
- Topic: It's been too long since we've had an in situ theme thread..
- Replies: 212
- Views: 868476
Re: It's been too long since we've had an in situ theme thre
I just took a quick glance through these again, enjoyed it and got a craving for more, hence I'm bumping
- May 25th, 2015, 12:37 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Another 60 hours - no sleep revisited
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2600
Re: Another 60 hours - no sleep revisited
Really great photos! As I was browsing the pictures I could not help but stop to ponder at the very noticeable convergent evolution of the herp species that you documented when compared to herps that I have encountered here in the Southwestern United States. There are many anatomical features to th...
- May 25th, 2015, 12:28 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Denmark, April 2015 & a bit (for Hans, 11 months late)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4257
Re: Denmark, April 2015 & a bit (for Hans, 11 months late)
Thanks, guys :) ...& yes, Kyle, the green toads, though uncommon & limited in distribution to selected coastal localities in the southern third of the country are safe for the time being as are all our herp species. There is a general decline in numbers and some species are somewhat rare but...
- May 20th, 2015, 5:05 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Denmark, April 2015 & a bit (for Hans, 11 months late)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4257
Re: Denmark, April 2015 & a bit (for Hans, 11 months late)
I stopped by the kurtmuelleri pond when I was in town today. Six big adults were kind enough to sit together, desplaying some of the varability of the species, deserving a better photographer. http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn26/krismunk2/P1030647%202.jpg They've been there for a couple of decad...
- May 19th, 2015, 1:17 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Albino worm snake!
- Replies: 19
- Views: 7132
Re: Albino worm snake!
And the lives of Leptotyphlops are relevant to a discussion of Carphophis, because...?klawnskale wrote:Considering that Leptotyphlops spend 95% of their lives underground...
Carphophis also being fossorial, though, to a large degree the same reasoning should apply to them.