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Corsica 2012

PostPosted: Mon Jun 04, 2012 3:57 pm
by Matt Wilson
Here's another report from my trip last week: http://mwilsonherps.wordpress.com/corsica-new/

Hope you like it!

Re: Corsica 2012

PostPosted: Mon Jun 04, 2012 4:17 pm
by Niklas Ban
Corsica seems to be a very beautyful island! Some nice finding as specially the juveline Hierophis :D

Re: Corsica 2012

PostPosted: Mon Jun 04, 2012 4:33 pm
by Niklas Ban
Niklas Ban wrote:Corsica seems to be a very beautyful island! Some nice finding as specially the juvenile Hierophis :D

Re: Corsica 2012

PostPosted: Mon Jun 04, 2012 4:42 pm
by Gabriel Martínez
Hi Matt!

Nice trip. Very cool the endemic herps as Discoglossus (both species) and Natrix natrix!

Regards

Re: Corsica 2012

PostPosted: Mon Jun 04, 2012 5:44 pm
by Peter Oefinger
Cool Natrix and nice bedriagae shots. More of this, please!

Re: Corsica 2012

PostPosted: Mon Jun 04, 2012 9:52 pm
by Andre Schmid
Nice trip report...those natrix are still awesome ! Thanks for the link.

Re: Corsica 2012

PostPosted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 9:05 am
by Jeroen Speybroeck
Grrreat !!!

Your "awesome scenery" shot looks very familiar - http://www.hylawerkgroep.be/jeroen/index.php?id=48 - May 15th :)

Love the Salamandras, of course. Also want to find such a marbled Euproctus some day...
Great shots of the hike scenery.

Interesting that you found Algyroides with relative ease!

Great colour on that first montalentii!

Might the Natrix's blue be a post-mortem effect (e.g. like you often see in dead lizards like Lacerta agilis)?

((Euleptes, not Eulepes))

Re: Corsica 2012

PostPosted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 9:43 am
by Thomas Bader
Hi Matt!

excellent report! superb hiking tour

Thomas

Re: Corsica 2012

PostPosted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 9:11 pm
by Carl Corbidge
I have finally done my Corsican report here http://carlcorbidgefieldherping.blogspot.co.uk/.

Jeroen I think the colour on the dead natrix is the living colour (it looked to have recently shed), one of the live snakes has a little blue behind the head see below. The algyroides were in the north east. Just for you Peter some wall/rock lizards below.
Grass snake A (26) copy.jpg
Bedriagas Rock lac melo (16) copy.jpg
Italian wall A (8) copy.jpg
Tyrr wall nice male (1) copy.jpg

Re: Corsica 2012

PostPosted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 9:32 pm
by Jeroen Speybroeck
Cool about that Natrix blue...

The tili looks very nice for a Corsican one.