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Found this very docile female adder at Bramshill on Friday.



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wow clare...you sure now how to make an entrance! another beautiful pic. something tells me that you're not new to this herp-spotting business.

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote clare Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 09 Apr 2007 at 2:33pm

Hi All, thanks for the warm welcome.  Have been watching reptiles whilst out watching birds and dragonflies for a few years but have only been making a real effort in the last couple of years and trying to build up a collection of reptile piccies.  Reading the posts on this forum is very informative and makes me realise how little I know about our native reptiles. I didn't even know that you could tell individual adders apart by their markings!

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Found a very docile male today (5:45pm) while with Arvensis, we observed this male from a distance for about 5mins and he didn't know he was being watched even when we left.

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Here is the the docile male mentioned above.




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Most of my pics came out not that good and did not really show the olive hint to the skin, anyway here's the best effort:

Now I've discovered that the camera needs a sensor clean and I can't find the flipping sensor cleaning swabs -oh well.
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So I would have that lovely adder down as being a female......

Dark brown markings = Female

Jet black markings = Male

 

Though have we any shots of the rostral scales?

or the tail?

 

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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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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.

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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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