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caz2004
Member Joined: 16 May 2004 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 2 |
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Posted: 16 May 2004 at 3:12pm |
hi. just found your website by checking it out for something i saw in my garden in Reading! i saw a slow worm-yes, i did think it was a snake! regardless of what it was called, it was beautiful and i feel quite privilaged to have seen him. he was a male, older than 3 as there was no black stripe. who else has seen one?
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Alan Hyde
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Hi caz , welcome.
I'm pleased to read of your find , nice one! And it's so refreshing to hear from someone that realises how privaliged we are to share this planet with these creatures. Slow-worms are quite common , and if you wish to see more look on heathland under sheets of tin. Cheers, Alan |
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I've just posted about going loopy today after seeing a viviparuous lizard and small newt species in the garden. I'll let you know if we get a slow-worm - though I see quite a few reptiles doing surveys, a slow-worm in our own garden will thrill me to bits too! A piece of roofing felt left in an area of the garden that gets plenty of sun, but is nicely overgrown might reveal a few more slow-worms in your garden. Check it about mid morning and mid afternoon, there may be some sat under it enjoying the heat after a few days. |
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Alan Hyde
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Cool Stuff Gemma , you're lucky. Unfortunately where I live it's very unlikely I'd get Slow-worms or lizards in the garden . :¼(
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caz2004
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thanks gemma and alan for your replies. i will try the felt in the garden and see what happens.
i must be honest though-it wasnt actually me who found the slow worm, it was my curious cat smuggly! he was staring intently at something so i went to investigate. i couldnt see anything at first and thought he must be ant-watching! when the slow worm moved im not sure who jumped the highest!! smuggly is now being supervised constantly and closely! thanks again guys, caz. |
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Well Al I have to say after living in London for years it's a bit like waking up to heaven each day! We're in a very rural part of Essex and I wasn't expecting colinisation this quickly, but we do have connectivity along the side of a vast arable field to an old school, now a classic brown field site, so I guess that's where our lizard came from. As for the newt, I'm sure she must have been in the garden already to have found the pond so quickly. |
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It's all down to Gemma's mad accountant :) |
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Alan Hyde
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Hi Gemma , Mervyn .
Mervyn : Mad? LOL! I asked the funny little people that live in the bushes at the end of my garden , and they said " Mervyn is not mad," ;¼) Gemma: Ahh yes ! I can totaly relate . How I long to wake in the morning to just birdsong . Still , Not long now . Sarah tells me we can afford to move rural in just under two years , Yeeeees!!! Then comes the compost heap , the big pond , the heathers, the sheets of tin , the the the ,, Yeah , i'm excited :¼)!!! |
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Trust me Al, whatever the little people in the bushes tell you, he is mad. Then again it was me poised at the edge of a pond this evening, net in hand for 20 minutes....waiting... waiting ... and then... yes... got it in one.. it's a Smooth Newt by the way, big old gal too. So we are both mad, oh well :0). Saw a lovely little juvenile grassy today too under tin, awww cutest thing I've seen since 'Charlie' the neo adder last October :0) PS grassy wasn't in the garden but at 'work', lifes good eh Edited by administrator |
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Alan Hyde
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Hi Gemma! :¼)
Oh yes life is good indeed! Congrats on finding your Juv' grassy , and smooth newt , faaantastic! LOL! You and Meryn sound just like me and Sarah . But as Mr D. Bowie once sang ,"I'd rather stay here with all the madmen , for i'm quite content they're all as sane as me" ;¼)hehehe. But , back on topic, Smooth Newts, Do you know how they adjust to relocation? I have a Lady friend round the school that has an Amphibian phobia . She has a pond full of newts and I wondered how they'd do if I moved them to my pond. Any ideas? Cheers, Al |
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