A few wild Central American B. schlegelii

[RMG]

Here's a few eyelash vipers I came across in CA this year...

enjoy!

Honduras:








Costa Rica:

[Gaboon]

Very cool! Did you go there on holiday or work?

[Saedcantas]

Lovely shots, how long were you out for?

I especially love the darker, mossy little chaps, wonderful!

[RMG]

I was both working and on holiday in CA..

10 weeks working with 4 weeks holiday altogether..

[Gaboon]

Originally Posted by RMG

I was both working and on holiday in CA..

10 weeks working with 4 weeks holiday altogether..

Great shots! Did you see much else? Where these hard to spot?

[Piraya1]

Hey Rob how's things with ya? Some adventure you were on!
Would've loved to have been there to hunt down some bothriechis aurifer!
And the time it would take to find them would be brilliant!
Fantastic pics you got, beautiful in the wild.

[STReptiles]

really nice mate nice one.

[RMG]

Originally Posted by Gaboon

Great shots! Did you see much else? Where these hard to spot?

I saw a fair bit alright. Came across representatives of most, if not all, of the crotalid genera found in CA, a few Micrurus species, heaps of colubrids,amphibians and a couple of crocodilians.

Going through all the photos and converting them to jpegs is the bigger problem

Where I work in Honduras the schlegel's are not locally abundant and therefore harder to come across (I think I found the only one's this year, another person found others last year) but in Costa Rica they are fairly abundant esp. in Tortuguero NP (someone else found an albino schleg there this year)..
Hard to spot? not really but same as anything, when you know where to look it makes it alot easier!

Would've loved to have been there to hunt down some bothriechis aurifer!

Hey Rob, No aurifer this year, I didn't go into Guatemala. But we did find a load of B. marchi compared to last year..maybe next year

[Sted_ed]

am taking it you shoot in RAW then lol

what camera n lens where you using ?

[RMG]

Originally Posted by Sted_ed

am taking it you shoot in RAW then lol

what camera n lens where you using ?

yeah shoot in raw. I've got a D200 and the lenses I used taking these were Sigma EX 180mm macro and Sigma AF DC OS 18-200mm.

I really rate the Sigma range for Nikon