The first viper is soo cool! We’ve just moved from the mountains, they have lots of snakes, but they only get out in June! Ugh, but found 4 new snakes so far, no skink, had no time to visit the spot with the most observations, but will go out tomorrow in a place that has lots of stuff including rare skinks, so if we’re lucky maybe we will see it, or I’ll leave it for another visit.)
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It is. Thanks. There’s a reason it was my top target :-)
Which mountains? Which snakes?
I’ve seen the skinks in Israel. Fairly common there, but still not the easiest.
Easier than describing ;) https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?d1=2023-05-15&place_id=any&subview=map&user_id=marina_gorbunova
Skinks are in the Red List of the country, not found out of southern Dagestan here.
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Good luck with them. I’d love to find renardi & dione.
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Today, I made an attempt to find Marchantia polymorpha (common liverwort). So far the result is an increased awareness of characters of lichen. 
It is still early and the search is fun.
edit: removed extra word for clarity
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