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    Posted: 13 Mar 2010 at 1:38pm

I was recently looking for Adders at a local site and on the way back I turned over a flat stone to reveal these Lizards hibernating. I took a couple of pics and then carefully replaced the stone.
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What an unusual find! How big was the stone? how thick? was it on sloped or flat ground? which County? I have found common lizards in the past hibernating under paving slabs at the foot of a south facing slope at a site in north Cumbria, I would of thought with a winter as cold as the one we've just had those lizards would of perished.

 



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Maybe they didn't hibernate there but have been returning there since they have come out of hibernation. 
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I would have been tempted to take them in until the weather got betteras I think some would have perished? keith
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I'm sure  that if having got through the winter then they would be fine and would not need to be interfered with

 

 



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My thoughts exactly however I will return to the site tomorrow and get some dimensions etc for the more curious members.
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Quite an amazing shot I agree they should be left as is I am surprised no one has tried to count them I reckon 21          ish.

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you told me about this pic but i was not prepared for how spectacular it would be.
amazing.
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not as many lizards, not as amazing a picture as Kev's, but I was similarly surprised to find four lizards under a partly buried brick at the edge of a scrubby field today; they'd certainly perish if there was any sort of frost, so I hope they move deeper into the ground or go somewhere else before the cold weather starts...
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