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will
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Posted: 01 Aug 2009 at 4:47pm |
Just back from the annual week's pilgrimage to Dorset, with some great weather for reptile watching (sun and cloud, 18-19 deg). The highlight was this small gravid female smooth snake found basking in the open on a railway sleeper in Purbeck. I had read about this behaviour from Tony but never seen it myself - made my holiday !
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arvensis
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Nice pics Will, what else did you see whilst you were down there? Mark |
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will
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Hi Mark
Managed all 6 at Studland including a small smooth snake traversing from one patch of heather to the next. I'll post some more pics soon Cheers Will |
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AGILIS
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good pics keith
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dave fixx
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cant stop looking at these pics,going to have to try and persuade one of you nice people to show me some of your wonderfull smooth snakes next year.Thanks for the pics Will.
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Dave Williams
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will
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Thanks Keith / Dave - I was lucky with this smoothy Dave; generally I find them very hard to spot in the open, especially fully exposed like this one. You'd think a buzzard / kestrel etc would pick them off with no trouble.
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will
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Hi Tony
Fantastic to have such intimate knowledge Tony - I feel privileged to have spotted her. Nice to know she's about to produce a new litter of young ones ! |
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