Montenegro Summer 22

[Marc]

Thogether with my Mom and Dad, I visited Montenegro with our caravan. We started on the 18. July and stayed there for almost two weeks. On our way there and back we made a few stops in Croatia to look for Herps.

The first two days we spent at the Vrana lake on the Dalmatian Coast. The weather was cloudy and later it also started to rain. So not too bad for herping in Summer. Although, we didn't find that many Reptiles during the day, we were very lucky at night.

Testudo hermanni

Zamenis situla

Telescopus fallax

We continued our journey and finally reached the Montenegrian broder. In the next two weeks we visited the Lustica Peninsula, Sutomore, Ada Bojana, Lake Skadar, Biogradska Gora NP, Durmitor NP and a short stop at the Prokletije Mountains. In total we could find 29 species and we were very happy to find so many species during the hot summer days. Here are some pictures of our finds.

Vipera ammodytes (Ada Bojana)

Lacerta trilineata (Lustica Peninsula)

Hyla arborea chilling in 43 °C midday sun (Ada Bojana)

Pseudopus apodus (Lake Skadar)

Pelophylax shqipericus (Lake Skadar)

Dinarolacerta montenegrina (Prokletije Mountains)

Habitat of Dinarolacerta montenegrina and my Dad

Montenegrian streets, a dream when you are travelling with a big caravan;)

Apollo (Biogradska Gora NP)

Dinarolacerta mosorensis (Durmitor NP)

Vipera berus bosniensis (Durmitor NP)

Vipera ursinii macrops (Durmitor NP)

On our way back we made a little stop on the croatian island Krk and after a short time we found a big Four lined.

Elaphe quatuorlineata (Ponikve, Krk)

So that was a nice ending of a great and also very hot herping trip.

Greets from Salzburg

[Gerald Ochsenhofer]

Thanks for sharing, nice findings!
...brings back nice memories of that region

[Tomas Klacek]

I missed this thread, many cool finds and shots! It´s great when you share a same passion with your parents.

[Marc]

Thanks Thomas. Yes especially for me as a student it's great!;)

[Francesco Tri]

Beautiful trip!!