I want to show you some pictures about a short trip in the Eastern Carpathians region. The first stop was near to the locality of Subcetate (Harghita County), were a huge water reservoir exists. At the end of this water body an interestingly rich Sand Lizard (Lacerta agilis agilis) population live. I don't know which is the real status of the Lacerta agilis argus - knows somebody? -, although these lizards shows a great variety of the erythronothus or rubra form - how you whish.
A first picture with the habitat.
A normal colored and patterned male.
A red-backed female.
A normal male again.
An interesting female almost without vertebral line.
An interesting male. Red-backed and imaculata in the same time.
Red-backed female.
Another female.
An interesting pattern on female.
A male with almost unbroken vertebral line.
The Viviparous or Common Lizard (Zootoca vivipara) live in the same habitat.
Common Frog (Rana temporaria) and Common Toad (Bufo bufo eggs in the same pond.
A male Common Frog on the shore of the water reservoir.
More pictures about the habitat.
The result of a short stop in Tusnad. Common Toad.
Another habitat with red-backed Sand Lizards.
A male.
A normal male.
A normal female.
In the second day we managed to stop for a short time in Mestecanisul de la Reci (Covasna County) for several pictures with Moor Frogs (Rana arvalis) and the Pool Frog (Pelophylax lessonae.
The habitat.
But we started with a lizard again.
The only observed Moor Frog.
The Pool frogs were in their reproduction period.
Here you can listen some Pool frog songs made in another trip.
The only snake of the trip, the Grass Snake (Natrix natrix) and its prey, the European Tree Frog (Hyla arborea), released after he saw me.
That's all folks! Hope you enjoy!
Maybe one day we`ll herp together in your neck of the woods. 