Toads aren't the most likely creature to meet in a dry river bed at temperatures in the mid 30s, tough little (about 1 inch in this case) things, and a bit of a recurring theme.
Shield bugs seem able to live anywhere, a huge variety of colours and patterns.
More beetles than any other non-microscopic life-form, so I'm not even trying to identify them!
I stopped to photograph the oleander, and found this little friend, barely 1 cm across.
A giant by comparison, lurking in the loo tent in minimal moonlight.
M's trainer was an odd place for a night's kip!
Where would we be without dung beetles?
Many lizards, you have to catch them early in the day before their metabolism warms properly, then they;re slow enough to photograph properly.
Possibly a small blue, but I'm happy to be corrected.
Another flock of lizards, the last one was a bit slow, his tail's made a good meal for someone.
We stumbled on a tiny stream with twenty or so assorted frogs.
Photograph one (Colchicum) get one (two flies) free!
No idea but looks vicious.
This one's really vicious, a few inches from D's tent.
Lucky I had my camera on the hazardous bed-time loo-trip!
Wonderfully patterned, camouflage? Decoration? "I'm-scarier-than-you"?
They all said I was mad to take photos of something so nasty!
But the fly probably came to a sticky-tongued end.
Not really a creepy-crawly, beetle burrows.
Many grasshoppers, but oddly almost no grass. I wonder if they eat dung, plenty of goats. As an aside, a carpet of goat-dung is wonderfully soft on the (still booted) feet after several hours on rocks!
A little gem of iridescence, emerald through sapphire and ruby to jet.
I love the frogs and toads :) the frogs in the water are surprisingly green considering the surroundings.
ReplyDeleteThe markings on the first one you saw at night are nice.
It's hot in the summer, so anywhere there's water is violently green, but the winters in the mountains are vicious, so life has to be robust.
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