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Alan Hyde
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James (Jimpklop) That is one very beautiful male that you took a pic of there, well done!
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Vicar
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Appleby Adders
(c) 1971 Leonard G. Appleby - reproduced for non-commercial educational & research purposes. Edited by Vicar |
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Jimpklop
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Ive seen behavioral changes in the last few visits there is no males rushing about, so i was guessing i have missed it, whens the competition closed then Tony?
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Jimpklop
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Hi Tony
Just did a quick search on Leonard Appleby and nothing is coming up whats the book called, might need to get my hands on it! Do you know of any more books that are a bit more in depth than "Adders are venomous and are live bearing"? because i have yet to find one. Thanks James |
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Peter Vaughan
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Tony - I'm a bit confused here - do you mean the picture I posted aaaabove is of a male? I thought the zig-zag was sufficiently light-brown to make it a female... |
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Jimpklop
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As they will be incubating their young i guess they will spend as much time in the sun and a little less reluctant to run off so soon, not sure as for this early, just a thought.
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Peter Vaughan
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I visited my local Adder site at 11:30 on Monday morning. The large male Adder was not in his usual spot and neither it seemed were any other animals about - but having set-off home I spotted the first female I have seen at this site, a little away from where I've seen the males. She was at the base of a birch tree, in a slight hollow in the ground surrounded by a ring of dead braken. Weather was mostly bright sunshine. Question for the Adder experts - is there any easy way of telling whether a female has mated yet by her behaviour? PS - Tony, your old monopod used for this shot. |
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Jimpklop
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yea the markings were very pale it was the white/olive sides that made me think it must be a male, no tail shots because he/she wouldn't move unless we touched it, was quite scary i thought it was dead after about 3 minutes but then it twitched, and after a second look over all my pictures from that day the blotches on its flanks are very faint (more so than an average male) so after all that it may be a female, i feel like a bit of a fool.
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arvensis
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No tail shots Jon unfortunately,, it was coiled up like that for the 5 or 10 minutes James and myself were taking piccies of it. I'm sure that its noticed the the 'V' is black compared to the dark brown zig-zag.
5 adders at a local site today, 2 Melanistic which 1 was def a female, 1 female with normal patterning, 1 adult male which i unsuccessfully tried to get a head shot of and a sub-adult male. Mark |
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herpetologic2
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Ah we have a rostral scale shot - cant make out the dark markings - though I am sure Bret would be able to tell us whether that was a male..... Any tail shots?
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