Very good im not supprised but i nevev knew we had the wall lizards bud i have seen a big green lizard a bit small for a lacerta viridis but all green including the top and too big for a lacerta agilis so im not completely sure what it was i have alsovseen black adders but it was a long time ago.
Could I have to location to this spot please. I’m here with work and I’ve just bought a cheap set up to wet the line. I’ve managed to snare one rainbow trout however I can’t seem to find any still pools for float fishing
Hi mate, can't say which the best spot in wexford in other than clean ground around 50ft deep but bait wise I'd always recommend a mackerel flapper personally :)
I’m heading to Australia for my 4th time next month and want to do some herping. Like you, I don’t pick them up or handle them, I have a good camera and lens and I just like to photograph. Anyway, how fast are you driving at night and at what time are you out looking?
Great to hear :) I was cruising around 60kph if it was quiet to cover ground and then if i found productive areas or activity started to happen I'd slow it down to 40-50, and I cruise from evening until whenever really, depending on how productiv things are or how desperate you've got haha
Thanks mate! yeah just to the right of the lighthouse there, looking straight at puffin island, not much sand there mate its very snaggy hence the float fishing, we did try and bottom fish there but it was as snaggy as expected
Pretty pointless fishing that far up the Eden for coarse fish, theyre mostly found in the lower reaches, Warwich Hall, Carlisle etc. Theres no roach, no perch, either.
Watched your video this morning before setting off on my first attempt at catching a sturgeon,, first and only fish of the day, and I caught it twice, and there’s only 2 in the pond weighed in at 18lb!
I thought that magnetic island is a metal island with grey rocks or something, but this is a true tropical island after all. Nice pythons, echidnas and the death adder. A true Australian ecosystem. Also, I am pretty sure that no frog can eat an adult death adder. They may attempt, but doesn’t mean that they can succeed.
Yeah apparently it was named because old timey sailors used to think it was throwing off their compasses but not sure theres any truth to that, Thanks very much for watching! and yeah I might've been thinking a bit ambitiously there haha
I will be staying in Donji Seget in July for a week, and top of my list to spot is the European Glass Lizard Pseudopus Apodus, preferably a live one. I was hoping to go to north Portugal this summer to visit the Peneda Gerês national park and spot the Timon lepidus and the Western Montpellier Snake. Unfortunately flights to Oporto are now rather expensive. So settled for Croatia instead.
Thankyou! :) Yeah with regards to the Antaresia it was a specimen from just South of Hughenden where all records seem to now be considered childreni but I don't know for sure how they can be distinguished morphologically apart from variable patterning characteristics, so I went with children's, but I also could be wrong, thanks for watching :)
@@fishingandherping7681 yeah, that area is right on the border. Maybe a range extension. Of course you saw the animal in person, but it looks an awful lot like a Mac.
Sorry I missed this comment I've just seen it, I have done a bit of a herping guide for the UK but I'm certainly not savvy enough in these countries to do one, I could have done with a guide myself haha
Thanks mate, I believe there is a permit to pay to the windermere angling assosciation, I didn't pay it because I've registered my boat to fish on windermere which i assume covers it, hope that helps :)
@fishingandherping7681 no worries at all, I've just discovered your channel and been making my way through your uploads I just got back from langkawi where I was out looking for herps and bugs.
@@fishingandherping7681 5ft Naja kaouthia, 12ft King, some mangrove pit viper, very dry at the moment there hottest it's been in 10yrs but the best time to find a king tho
It's amazing and understandable that it was called an Adder. You are correct natural selective pressure of similar niche animals causes them to look like one another even though genetically they are completely unrelated (no vipers in AussieLand.) Similar to the Old world and New World "Vine Snakes."
Usually, island populations of snakes depending on the amount of time disconnected from the originating species, really become a unique sub-species. Usually with more potent venom due to lack of prey and dwarfism or gigantism. Like your Red Bellied Black Snakes that inhabit islands.
Sixth most toxic venom but probably one of the fastest if not the fastest strike in the entire world. So fast in fact many bitten never saw it bite or even believed they were bitten. Fortunately, they rarely bite humans.
Love the Aussie's naming conventions for animals. "Hey mate what's say we name the baby Echidnas - puggles?" friend "G-job mate! Puggles it is!" Really should be renamed to "Tribbles."
Nice black-headed pythons and monitor. It is difficult to make a nice recording of a monitor. I didn’t know that brown tree snakes are so common in Australia. Now it is easy to imagine them as an invasive species on a small island. Also why you didn’t handle anything on camera? You aren’t getting a real feeling for herps if you don’t handle them, and in this respect they are better than birds or mammals. You could well measure the python and feel her belly just by holding her for a few minutes.
Thanks mate, to be honest I do prefer to minimize handling though just to keep reduce disturbance as much as I can especially considering I photograph them for a while, and also to reduce the chance of other people handling snakes as a result of my videos and then ending up possibly misidentifying snakes or getting bitten themselves, causing harm to the snake etc.
