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Peter Vaughan
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Posted: 14 Mar 2010 at 11:16pm |
Conditions seemed right for Grass Snakes to emerge here in north east Hampshire today - 12 C and, at least in the morning, bright sunshine, and the first butterflies of the year on the wing. I searched at mid-day without apparent success at two local sites, the only hint of anything being a small patch of olive green at the base of some dead braken (less than a metre away from a basking Adder). I had convinced myself that was nothing more than a couple of green leaves but on examing a photograph this evening this is what I found: So the Grass Snake season has begun here, if a little unspectacularly! |
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dave fixx
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Nice one Peter.Gives me a bit of hope for my searching a possible new site tomorrow.Great timing.
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Dave Williams
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kevinb
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I went to a site in the Mendips yesterday and saw 5 Grass snakes and 6 Adders, 4 Grass snakes in one location, possibly the hibernaculum.
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st rick
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Plenty of Grass Snakes out on Thursday at Burnham Beeches.
I saw about 15 and only 6 Adders. It's usually the other way round at this time of year. grassie1.jpg"> Edited by st rick |
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Chris Monk
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Out today on the moors looking for adders, at one of their hibernation emergence where an adder was seen last spring I was surprised to come across an adult grass snake which quickly disappeared into cover. About 100 metres south a running lizard lizard drew attention to this stick in the bracken, which turned out to be a juvenile grass snake.
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herpetologic2
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Anyone who would like to cover known adder sites this spring (for example Burnham Beeches) please get in touch I can send a MTAC survey form for 2010 regards J |
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Report your sightings to the Record Pool http://arguk.org/recording
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dave fixx
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First one of the year for me.
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Dave Williams
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tim hamlett
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difficult to get such good in situ shots of grass snakes...nice pics dave. tim |
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Matt Harris
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Originally counted this as one (couldn't / didn't want to get close), but there's two having a cwtch at the heathland restoration site in Sunday. In five years of monitoring we've only seen one grassie, but this year we've had 3 already. |
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Short video clip of a 2-male mating ball from the Basingstoke Canal yesterday.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWvPqkRZjl8 |
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