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Liz Heard
Senior Member Joined: 27 Apr 2010 Location: South West Status: Offline Points: 1429 |
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Posted: 19 Jun 2011 at 4:23pm |
hi folks!
HAPPY FATHERS DAY TO ALL RAUK FATHERS! visited my dad today at his home near Minchinhampton and after a meal, a chat and a glass of Westons Vintage Cider (support the local brewers and cidermakers!) i conducted a quick tour of the 6 "tins" i placed around his garden some time ago. CONDS TODAY; warm, calm but overcast GARDEN HABITAT DESCRIPTION; a half acre of grassy, west-facing and stepped hillside bordered by dry-stone walling in the typical GLOS style. outskirts of a small country village. there are a mixture of native/non-native trees and plants. HERPS PREVIOUSLY RECORDED AT THIS SITE - an occasional toad, common frog, smooth and palmate newt, slowie and (years ago) viv lizard. ASSOCIATED NATIVE MAMMALS INCLUDE; badger, bank vole, fox, common shrew, roe deer. DURATION OF SURVEY; 10 minutes (of joy!) im happy to report that all the slates bar 1 yielded slow-worms of varying size and age. habitat pic; probable (?) hibernaculum; 1. the baby slowie under here scooted - no pic. bah! 2. 2nd youngster; 3. a nice sub-adult; 4. a third tiny one in a completely different part of the garden; 5. the big rubber mat at the bottom of the garden. i only lifted this one partially - there may have been more slowies; nice adult male; and finally (if youve got this far )...... 6. there were 2 under here. a sub-adult and an adult; all the best members, ben |
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will
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Cheers Ben, speaking as a raukfather! great to see those slowies in what looks like an amazing wildlife-friendly garden.
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AGILIS
Senior Member Joined: 27 Feb 2007 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 1689 |
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Hi Ben Hmmm I am a ruak GF still trying to be a 25 year old herpo hoping to run into the same 25 year old fem on a site Keith
Edited by AGILIS - 19 Jun 2011 at 7:40pm |
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dave fixx
Senior Member Joined: 13 Mar 2007 Location: Wales Status: Offline Points: 411 |
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great 10 minutes Ben,its been a long time since I had ten minutes of pleasure at my parents house to equal that !Then again I am am a Raukfather these days.Great to see the slowies doing so well.
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Dave Williams
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