Adventure with a Horseshoe Whip Snake at the Guadalhorce-Mouth
October 08 2014
Dear reader!
At least seven Common Snipes we saw at the Guadalhorce-Mouth. While most of them were, exhausted from the long journey, sleeping hidden well camouflaged, these two went foraging:
Also the first Teals from the high North arrived:
Autumn at the Guadalhorce:
A male White-headed Duck in his eclipse plumage:
And here a couple:
""Well, Mrs. Turtle are you also enjoying the beautiful sunny day?" the Black Coot is asking friendly: 
Here probably one of the youngest Stilts, still well protected by its parents:
The Oystercatchers are still staying at the river mouth:
A Redshank showed us …
… a perfect landing:
While we were still a little bit disappointed, that the Osprey or …
… the quarreling Marsh Harriers could be observed only from far away, suddenly in the observation hut dramatic scenes took place:
This Gecko was fleeing from a predator and exactly hiding where I was sitting. And then I only felt something soft on my naked arm. No, neither a pestering fly nor a leaf
When I looked at my arm I nearly got a stroke, because this Horseshoe Whip Snake was obviously in her chase fallen from above on me and was looking for the Gecko. I shook her off, not without screaming a little bit in shock, I admit! But i quickly had myself under control again and took photos from this strange visitor in the observation hut:
Soon the Horseshoe Whip Snake - surely more shocked than me - was winding on the floor and …
… disappeared through a small hole from the wood shelter
An unforgettable moment, which I would not like to be repeated!
Best regards
Birgit Kremer