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Northern Venom 
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 Posted: 26 Jan 2012 at 8:39am |
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PS can a moderator please remove this very strange situation where my posts get reviewed before appearing on line as its making me feel like some sort of criminal!
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Posted: 26 Jan 2012 at 9:51am |
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hi, im a regular reader however i dont post much.
ive been interested in adders and grass snakes for a long time catching grass snakes whilst fishing and spotting adders whilst walking the dogs with my parents.
as i grew older i became more interested in photographing and just watching them.
i have a fantastic grass snake site at a friends farm in east yorkshire, and i go to a certaion nature reserve in east yorkshire as well to see adders. i dont want to say on the internet but im sure you will know where i mean.
i hear and read a lot about make the adder count projects and various other surveys and studies. i'd really like to get involved is there any direction you can point me in. id love to help with habitat management and ultimately conservation.
id be very grateful for any help
thanks Andy
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Iowarth
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Posted: 26 Jan 2012 at 10:18am |
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Hi Northern Venom I'm sorry, I had to implement this as a spam prevention measure - and it can only be done so on a global basis - not member by member. We have been very heavily targetted recently. You should, however, be OK now. Regards Chris |
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Iowarth
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Posted: 26 Jan 2012 at 10:21am |
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Hi Andy I would suggest that you go to the ARG-UK website at http://www.arguk.org/. Once there, if you click on the "Local Groups" tab, you will find the contact for your nearest group who will, I am sure, be thrilled to hear from you. All the best Chris |
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Northern Venom
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Posted: 26 Jan 2012 at 10:22am |
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Thanks Chris!
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Posted: 26 Jan 2012 at 10:28am |
Hi Chris,
thanks very much for the info i will do that right away, fantastic!
i notice in your sig it says co-ordinator of the sand lizard program, was that linked to an Article ive read in PRK magazine? if so i read it with rteal enthusaism and was disapointed at the amount of literature i could have read pages. Its brilliant you can start a good breeding program like that and i wish you all the best luck with it
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Posted: 26 Jan 2012 at 10:40am |
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Don't know enough about Adders but my own observations of Grass Snakes basking at/near the hibernacula in 2011 lasted about three days (almost a no show, very discreet), the year before (same site) over two weeks. It surely depends on the weather, two years ago being ups and downs at that time; last year an out of the blue cold snap followed by a stretch of consistently cool weather. Alternatively i may have missed peak immigration!
The literature suggests GS and Ads bask much less in autumn at the hib unlike their well documented spring emergence. Although I've found that Natrix tend not to hang around long in the spring. Although i would imagine that weather conditions must play a part in the length of time spend basking on emergence too (common sense really).
P.S. Any info on Rob Vs pylon conundrum before it gets lost under a pile of posts? No idea meself. |
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Posted: 26 Jan 2012 at 10:46am |
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Posted: 26 Jan 2012 at 11:15am |
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Hi Andy I'm afraid I don't get/read PRK and have no knowledge of the article you mention - or even of its accuracy. The programme itself has been running in one form or another for many years (over 40) - certainly long before I joined it, but it is certainly one of, if not the most successful of its type in the world. |
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