Some pictures from the Cres-Lošinj archipelago

[Ruggero M.]

Just to change species...

Two Pseudopus

A more "artistic" point of view of the two

From the car

A small meli

Water turtle

Land turtle

Coming back late from a gostioniza...

[Jeroen Speybroeck]

Good stuff! When was this? Just now?

[Ruggero M.]

Thanks! Just now... last week, actually.

[Ruggero M.]

Just one picture from 2021.

A melanistic small Esculapian snake

[Ruggero M.]

And a couple of pictures from 2022.
Every year, always fewer animals to find, and more habitat destruction...

Two road kills at the same time

Young male in situ

Not the same specimen (I think this small one is a female)

[Mario Schweiger]

nice pictures - but sorry for the situla. the insignitus has a great color

[Ruggero M.]

nice pictures - but sorry for the situla. the insignitus has a great color

About the two DOR situla, one can easily notice the background colour difference between this adult and this baby. Actually in Cres babies situla tend to have (not always but very often) a beautiful yellowish background colour which tends to fade as the snake grows.

[Ruggero M.]

This was, anyway, a big beautiful female situla, saved from a probable death on the road, which retained at least some of the nice yellowish background colour of her childhood...

Cres 2022

[Mario Schweiger]