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    Posted: 08 Aug 2012 at 5:15pm
A few from the garden. The plan was to get a mass shot as in the perfect conditions of warm but overcast this afternoon I was spotting groups of over a dozen or more. They wouldn't play ball though so these shots were the best I could get. These ones were all really tiny too, quite a mix in brood sizes this year in the garden but glad to report it seems to be a bumper year for numbers in our wildlife garden. Lots of food about too in the high vegetation.










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brilliant

still gravid females around here in north staffs

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote will Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 08 Aug 2012 at 5:51pm
Nice!  quite a few about with us at the moment, but like Tim, still some gravid females which is pretty unusual for us soft southerners.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Liz Heard Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 09 Aug 2012 at 10:09pm
great pix. recorded a gravid fem in Slad, Stroud on sunday.
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Plenty of a few day olds round the road side sites in Suffolk yesterday Welcome back Ben have you been on Holiday ?keith


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I saw this very young viviparous lizard by the path at Stodmarsh in Kent a couple of weeks ago. It was probably just a couple of days old and had no fear of people yet.





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Superb Jason, I guess your baby looked almost entirely black to the eye, mine must have been about for a while as the bodies were beginning to go brown already.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote JaySteel Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 11 Aug 2012 at 6:15pm
Thanks. It looked fairly black until the sun hit it. Then it had quite a metallic bronze sheen to it. It amazes me how independent and active they are immediately after birth.

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