too tyred to fight ?

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   Me too Suzi, it's quite odd when someone posts a picture of an 'old friend', especially if they are a bit secretive about sites, nice to know the animal is still about though. 
We have a couple of old tyres in the wildlife garden, most likely to produce animals on overcast days and in some conditions they get smothered by lizards trying to warm up.

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GemmaJF Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 25 Jan 2003 Location: Essex Status: Offline Points: 4359	Post Options Post Reply Quote GemmaJF Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 24 Apr 2012 at 4:32pm
	Me too Suzi, it's quite odd when someone posts a picture of an 'old friend', especially if they are a bit secretive about sites, nice to know the animal is still about though. We have a couple of old tyres in the wildlife garden, most likely to produce animals on overcast days and in some conditions they get smothered by lizards trying to warm up.

Paul Hudson Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 24 Sep 2004 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 98	Post Options Post Reply Quote Paul Hudson Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 25 Apr 2012 at 10:17am
	Hey Will, Looks like the male and female sands have had a lovers tiff!! maybe giving her the cold shoulder before he finds another female.
	Paul Hudson

will Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 27 Feb 2007 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 1830	Post Options Post Reply Quote will Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 25 Apr 2012 at 11:15am
	definitely a look of the cold shoulder there! in fact there was another female within a few metres, being guarded by another male, and our male here made a visit to the other one but was quickly driven away - sandy soap opera style.

Paul Hudson Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 24 Sep 2004 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 98	Post Options Post Reply Quote Paul Hudson Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 25 Apr 2012 at 11:21am
	I bet they have a wife swop at some point though!
	Paul Hudson

will Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 27 Feb 2007 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 1830	Post Options Post Reply Quote will Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 25 Apr 2012 at 12:20pm
	pretty much like an Eastenders storyline, I guess..

will Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 27 Feb 2007 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 1830	Post Options Post Reply Quote will Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 06 May 2012 at 9:14pm
	same site - from today. That's got to hurt!

AGILIS Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 27 Feb 2007 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 1689	Post Options Post Reply Quote AGILIS Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 07 May 2012 at 7:30pm
	Were abouts was you will ?keith
	LOCAL ICYNICAL CELTIC ECO WARRIOR AND FAILED DRUID

will Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 27 Feb 2007 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 1830	Post Options Post Reply Quote will Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 08 May 2012 at 6:32am
	mainly down at Studland Keith. On Sunday the sunshine crept across to Purbeck but no further east for much of the day.

Richard2 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 01 Dec 2010 Status: Offline Points: 285	Post Options Post Reply Quote Richard2 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 08 May 2012 at 11:39am
	Wonderful pictures - the wild look in that male's eye as he bites! They've got a lot of ticks, though.

Richard2 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 01 Dec 2010 Status: Offline Points: 285	Post Options Post Reply Quote Richard2 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 08 May 2012 at 12:00pm
	About twenty years ago I did some voluntary work moving animals from sites due to be built-on, and I remember a site where the Sand Lizards were huge. Doug Mills said they were the biggest he'd ever seen. It was a suburban site where piles of rubble had been dumped, which the lizards inhabited. They could disappear into the pile in a flash, and the theory was that they survived to grow so large because birds couldn't land and grab them on the rubble. I wonder, too, whether there were no ticks on that site, because of the rubble and because of the absence of deer. On Studland, I've noticed, it's rare to see a very large specimen. Is it because as they grow larger they become slower and more conspicuous, and get picked off by birds and snakes? And do ticks play a part, weakening them and making them slower?