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Noodles
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Posted: 06 Sep 2011 at 10:36am |
I caught this little fella and family under my slow-worm mats last week. If you dunna grab 'em hard by the scruff of the neck they'll give you a nasty nip, although i think the Woodmouse the most viscous of the small mammals. Having said all that i still have the scar on my knuckle from a Water vole bite sustained over 20 years ago. Quite a badge of honour, i think, since they'll probably be extinct in this country before i am.
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Suzy
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Slowies never go under this toad sack but they do go under plastic sacks I have about. They also go under upturned plastic tubs. I force rhubarb in spring under large tubs stuffed with straw (can't afford the lovely terracotta ones!)and I got quite a start one day as a slow worm had climbed right up through the straw and rhubard shoots to the top. I figure they don't use this flat-on-the-ground sack as it is out in the open with no vegetation to slink through to get to it. Perhaps feel too vulnerable.
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tim hamlett
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do your slowies use the other plastic refuge as well or just the one on the compost heap? tim
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Suzy
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I have on my veg garden a plastic fertiliser sack folded in half with the inside (black) facing outwards and weighted down at the corners. Up to four little toads live under there at a time. They're all much of a size (bit bigger than a 50p) and by looking at their colouring I realise there must be at least 6 different ones use this place. I have this plastic down especially for them as I discovered they liked to live under there. It must get very hot on a sunny day. Now where they come from I don't know as there don't seem to be any suitable breeding places nearby. There are plenty of bigger toads in the garden too. Some of these live in the compost heaps under the plastic covering - again hot place on a sunny day.
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tim hamlett
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kit
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If u go to chester zoo in the car park there are a few large rocks if you look around there under the wooden boards there are all ways toads under there and the ocasional vole
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kit
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i saw the same thing but the toad was reder and the vole was more golden
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Great pic.
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dave fixx
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This picture was taken about 20 yards from where you spotted the first adder on that ramble Tim.Ben I cheated my mate Adam took this pick and I lifted the rock!
Edited by dave fixx - 09 Jun 2011 at 10:52pm |
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tim hamlett
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love toads but don't get too many of them around here tim
Edited by tim hamlett - 09 Jun 2011 at 9:34pm |
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