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Martti Niskanen
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PostSubject: More finnish herps, including overwintering gone wrong   More finnish herps, including overwintering gone wrong Icon_minitimeTue 26 Apr - 21:34

Finnish herping again. With only a small number of species around, we're stuck looking for the same species all over and over again (not complaining) in different locations and habitats. We went to our summer house for Easter and as the weather was lovely (Got to 22C), the herps were out.

Saw this pre-shed, blue male adder.
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Female Common lizard Zootoca vivipara.
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Came across something I had never seen before. Common frogs Rana temporaria overwinter mostly in the water at these latitudes as the environment is more stable than when going underground. We had a lot of ice this year and it seems that these individuals had chosen to stay in too shallow water and were either frozen through, crushed by the dropping ice level, or both.

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Put my video camera to good use again, so here are a couple of takes of me explaining it:
https://youtu.be/XJvv30f649w
https://youtu.be/xrKiQ5qxnCk

And a couple of non-herping related photos. The good thing about the cold water is that it keeps both the beer and the herpers nice and cool:

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Cheers

Martti
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PostSubject: Re: More finnish herps, including overwintering gone wrong   More finnish herps, including overwintering gone wrong Icon_minitimeTue 26 Apr - 21:52

Holy shit, I like my drinks on ice too, but of course not my baths.

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