Balkan Trip, Ada Bojana (Montenegro):

[Paul Lambourne]

I have just returned from a splendid Balkan herping road trip, organised by Tomaz. We had ten days to tick as many species as possible... even though the weather was not always the best I think we did fairly well I will let Tomaz provide a full trip report but I will just post a few pics .. I will try and limit my pics to just a few per country so I dont bore you all

Firstly Ada Bojana (Montenegro):

- Agile frog (Rana dalmatina)

- Montpellier snake (Malpolon insignitus)

- Albanian pool frog (Pelophylax shqipericus)

- Caspian whip snake (Dolichophis caspius)

- Caspian whip snake (Dolichophis caspius)

- Macedonian Crested newt ( Triturus macedonicus)

- Montpellier snake (Malpolon insignitus)

- Montpellier snake (Malpolon insignitus)

More to follow......

Cheers

Paul

[Guillaume Gomard]

Come on; waiting for the hundreds of Ammodytes.

Those pics are already very good, but I was thinking the same Let's have some red vipers

[Tomaz Jagar]

Sorry to dissapoint you guys, we only saw two ammodytes on Ada, which quickly dissapeared into a thicked. So no pics from there...

I expect I'll have the whole trip report posted here in a day or so, for now I can only give some statistics... 8 days, 4500km and 43 (or possibly 44) species of herps

[Tomaz Jagar]

Wow. When I (we) was there in 2007, there were more vipers on one morning than in most other complete trips. I've heard rumors about professional collectors - may they be true?

Sadly, I wouldn't be surprised too much if they were true...

[Rok Grzelj]

Malpolon is a fantastic species to find....Im jealous
...and it seems that ammodytes were faster than malpolon

[Tomaz Jagar]

...and it seems that ammodytes were faster than malpolon

Not really, but they did have a very big pile of branches to hide in