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   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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caz2004 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Member Joined: 16 May 2004 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 2	Post Options Post Reply Quote caz2004 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: slow worm 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?

Alan Hyde Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 17 Apr 2003 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 1437	Post Options Post Reply Quote Alan Hyde Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 16 May 2004 at 5:36pm
	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

administrator Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 01 Jan 2007 Status: Offline Points: 10	Post Options Post Reply Quote administrator Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 16 May 2004 at 7:49pm
	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.

Alan Hyde Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 17 Apr 2003 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 1437	Post Options Post Reply Quote Alan Hyde Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 17 May 2004 at 11:20am
	Cool Stuff Gemma , you're lucky. Unfortunately where I live it's very unlikely I'd get Slow-worms or lizards in the garden . :�( Alan

caz2004 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Member Joined: 16 May 2004 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 2	Post Options Post Reply Quote caz2004 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 17 May 2004 at 11:57am
	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.

administrator Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 01 Jan 2007 Status: Offline Points: 10	Post Options Post Reply Quote administrator Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 17 May 2004 at 12:00pm
	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.

test2 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Member Joined: 29 Apr 2008 Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote test2 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 17 May 2004 at 12:07pm
	Alan It's all down to Gemma's mad accountant :)

Alan Hyde Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 17 Apr 2003 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 1437	Post Options Post Reply Quote Alan Hyde Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 17 May 2004 at 3:59pm
	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," ;�) 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 :�)!!!

administrator Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 01 Jan 2007 Status: Offline Points: 10	Post Options Post Reply Quote administrator Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 17 May 2004 at 7:11pm
	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

Alan Hyde Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 17 Apr 2003 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 1437	Post Options Post Reply Quote Alan Hyde Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 18 May 2004 at 10:21am
	Hi Gemma! :�) 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" ;�)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