More Ash Berus (Habitat pic)

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   I returned to my Ash spot today and I've found another population of berus ,along with natrix. This spot has many ditches  full of cut down logs  and this is where I found two natrix. Does this area look likely for a hibernaculum?
Alan

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Alan Hyde Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 17 Apr 2003 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 1437	Post Options Post Reply Quote Alan Hyde Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: More Ash Berus (Habitat pic) Posted: 05 Jun 2003 at 4:05pm
	I returned to my Ash spot today and I've found another population of berus ,along with natrix. This spot has many ditches full of cut down logs and this is where I found two natrix. Does this area look likely for a hibernaculum? Alan

Alan Hyde Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 17 Apr 2003 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 1437	Post Options Post Reply Quote Alan Hyde Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 05 Jun 2003 at 4:21pm
	Hi Tony , It is sparse , you're quite right, and only a very small population. But it did have adders! More common Lizards though. I wanted to get habitat pics of the good areas I mentioned , but couldn't for reasons I've said in a PM to you. Cheers, Alan

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	There's a hibernaculum I know in Lincolnshire that looks like this (with more heather). Theres a lot of rabbit burrows there so I assume that's what they're using. Cheers, Lee.
	Lee Fairclough

Alan Hyde Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 17 Apr 2003 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 1437	Post Options Post Reply Quote Alan Hyde Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 05 Jun 2003 at 8:06pm
	Hi Tony, Lee , Thanks for the thoughts, and Tony..no worries on the sarcasm, Oiy loikes a chuckle meself Just been back to the spot again and took a pic of the heather patches with gravid berus surrounded by grass. You can see what I mean by Dog walkers strolling close by and letting their dogs bound in. On the other side of the heather is another footpath ,and the woods behind has a bare floor covered in pine needles. BTW , while walking in the heather this evening I saw 4 C.d. defecatus!

Alan Hyde Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 17 Apr 2003 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 1437	Post Options Post Reply Quote Alan Hyde Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 05 Jun 2003 at 9:59pm
	Hi Tony, Yup, It has been mown . If you look at the pic' again ,where it appears as though the footpath ends is where it turns to mown grass. The adders are on the right of the picture in the heathers. Alan

Alan Hyde Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 17 Apr 2003 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 1437	Post Options Post Reply Quote Alan Hyde Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 05 Jun 2003 at 10:12pm
	Here's a shot from the actual spot where 2 gravid berus were found. The snakes were lying right of the young pine tree , and here you can see that the heather turns to grass .