Sardinia 2008

[boeh]

Hi there!

During the last two weeks I was in Sardinia (Island close to Italy) for holidays. Of course I had a look at the interessting flora and fauna and took a lot of pictures. I just want to share the best of them with you. Thanks for having a look at.

Cyrill

[boeh]

If you want to get to some beautyful places in the "outback" that are not touched by any human...something like that:



....or that....



...you just have to go through a lot of bushwood...




...(a lot of berry bushs)...



...so you need something....my weapon of choice :

[boeh]

There I saw a lot of dragonflies, blue and black ones....



By the tarn close to our house were the big ones...

[boeh]

Of course there are also a lot of other insects (this one, a true killer, had always something to eat):



...and many different butterflies...here the most beautyful i think:




...some days before (not sure if it is really the caterpillar of the one above)...



...and here a little scorpio:

[adamanteus]

Excellent photos, Cyrill! Love the Dragonflies.

[Sid]

Great photos and I love the habitat shots.

[boeh]

I even "had to" catch a mammal. He got lost in our house and didn't find the way out. I decided to catch him and bring him out....but couldn't let my fingers of the camera and took those shots:

...he was not very amused and made a lot of noise, kind of screeching:



...something I didn't know that clear before....they have an impressive dentition:

[Gijs & Sabine]

Wow, that looks like a great vacation !!
Excellent pictures

[boeh]

Ok ok, I didn't only catch animals...sometimes (truely not many times) I took a recreation in the sea:



...but afterwards...hmm...how can I tell? oh, I don't have to, just have a look at the picture, what a luck


(think it is a Testudo hermanni, but I'm not sure at all. But it can't be the other native turtle (Testudo marginata))

[boeh]

Here the vocal ones, mainly at night, a real open air concert:

Hyla sarda

in green....





..they can change their color, couldn't believe it first (not the same exemplar, but could be without problem):