The whole Trip Report (23 pages) you can find here, eihter in English or in German: http://michaelwilms-naturfotografie.jimdo.com/reiseberichte-exkursionsberichte/.
Almost all pics I also will send now in the threat here with a short description. For more information please read the report.
If there a mistakes, especially with the species of lizards, please correct me.
The whole trip was from 13/04/2013 till 08/05/2013.
The route of the trip:
1) National Park Plitvice lakes
2) National Park Krka waterfalls
3) Pakostane and Vransko Jezero (Lake Vrana)
4) National Park Paklenica
5) Island Pag
The first stop was National Park Plitvice lakes
On the higher lakes there was still a lot of snow and some paths were still flooded and closed.
Euscorpius sp. (I found the evening before visiting the national park)
Euscorpius sp. in the nigth under an ultraviolet flashlight (to find them better)
Some waterfalls and landscapes of the National Park Plitvice Lakes
Lacerta viridis (near the lakes and not far away from the last snow)
The second stop was the Krka area and the national park
Podarcis sicula
Krka National Park
Natrix tesselata
Younger Natrix tesselata
Krka National Park (a bit upstream)
A toad (I did not determine) underwater
Podarcis melisellensis
Young Elaphe quatuorlineata (some kilometers outside the national park)
Hierophis gemonensis
The young Elaphe quatuorlineata, the Hierophis gemonensis and an Elaphe situla (which I could not get a pic of) I found all in an area of 25 sq.m., but at different times.
The third stop was Lake Vrana and Pakostane
Testudo hermanni boettgeri, I found 3 female and 1 mal near Pakostane on just a few sq.m.
Pseudopus apodus, I really found very often nearly all over all the places I visited
A crab spider eating
The fourth stop was National Park Paklenica
Zamenis longissimus, I found two times in the valley near the creek
Vipera ammodytes, I found in the higher regions of the national park
Habitat of V. ammodytes
Lacerta viridis in their habitat next to V. ammodytes
Podarcis melisellensis (former wrong written and discussed (see below): Podarcis sicula)
Algyroides nigropunctatus
Natrix natrix ssp. in the valley near the creek (Paklenica N.P.)
Salamandra salamandra in the middle of the path (Paklenica N.P., 7:00 a.m.)
Zerynthia polyxena (Southern festoon butterfly), near the Creek in Paklenica N.P.
Iphiclides podalirius (Scarce Swallowtail), near the Coast of Starigrad on Tamarisk trees
Sunset on the coast of Starigrad
The last stop was on the Island Pag
Very old Olive trees on the norther peninsula Lun
Old Olive tree with a stone circle, in which I found the same Hierophis gemonensis on 3 different days
Hierophis gemonensis
Lake and marsh Habitat on Pag
Emys obicularis, which were difficult zu get good pics of
Zamenis situla
For a Zamenis situla I searched the whole trip. I found one near Krka, which was too fast, and one DOR on the peninsula Lun on Pag and then one on Pag near Metajna, of which I got good pics.
Species List (only reptiles)
Elaphe quatuorlineata
Hierophis gemonensis
Natrix natrix sp.
Natrix tesselata
Vipera ammodytes
Zamenis longissimus
Zamenis situla
Emys obicularis
Testudo hermanni boettgeri
Algyroides nigropunctatus
Lacerta trilineata
Lacerta viridis
Podarcis melisellensis
Podarcis sicula
Pseudopus apodus
I hope, you enjoyed the pics and maybe the Trip Report, I linked at the beginning.
