boscombe update

I stopped off at Boscombe today, with warm and overcast conditions suggesting lizards would be out and about; saw around 60 wall lizards, many still paired up with females looking ready to lay a second clutch, about 10 green lizards and 1 solitary viviparous lizard at the top of the zig-zag.  It occurred to me that as and when sand lizard and viviparous lizard are rendered extinct by wall lizards, it would be fun to drop some smooth snakes onto the cliffs - they'd not be short of food! (only joking, sort of..)





Part of the cliffs burned out, but plenty of habitat remains:

very difficult to assess, especially as I'm only an occasional visitor.  However my impression is that there are fewer viviparous lizards this year.  It's also true that the gorse management is over-zealous which to my mind would affect the viviparous lizards, which prefer more humid, well vegetated habitats than the wall lizards.

There are plenty of Common Lizards elsewhere. Why not protect the introduced species as much as possible in this particular place?

I suppose I was being provocative too. I'm delighted by the presence of these Green and Wall Lizards.

point is who said there werent any ca there as cliff hanging aint allowed and the would be harder to see keith

Edited by AGILIS - 26 Jul 2011 at 6:47am