Where am I going wrong???

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   Last year I rekindled my interest in snakes and managed to find two grassies, one mature, one little bootlace and two common lizards, all on the same site. It's a small reserve (9 hectares) in East Hertfordshire. This year I cannot find a thing. The wildlife trust trimmed a lot of the growth back, but still looks OK as habitat. Is it me or is it possible there were only a few animals here in the first place? Anyone got any confirmed sites in Herts for me to go to please??    

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Ginger! Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Member Joined: 01 Jun 2007 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 13	Post Options Post Reply Quote Ginger! Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Where am I going wrong??? Posted: 01 Jun 2007 at 1:17pm
	Last year I rekindled my interest in snakes and managed to find two grassies, one mature, one little bootlace and two common lizards, all on the same site. It's a small reserve (9 hectares) in East Hertfordshire. This year I cannot find a thing. The wildlife trust trimmed a lot of the growth back, but still looks OK as habitat. Is it me or is it possible there were only a few animals here in the first place? Anyone got any confirmed sites in Herts for me to go to please??

st rick Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 26 Apr 2006 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 141	Post Options Post Reply Quote st rick Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 01 Jun 2007 at 6:34pm
	Hi Ginger Sorry you had such bad luck. In my opinion, Herts is a funny county for reptiles, I read somewhere that Adders are practically extinct there, on the other hand, most of the Grassies seem to crop up closest to London and away from the deeper countryside. There are a string of lakes and reservoirs that extend south of Cassiobury Park in Watford, through Rickmansworth and in to S. Bucks around the Denham region that are really good for Grassies, however.

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: 02 Jun 2007 at 3:28am
	hi ginger yes as Rick said many years back the string of lakes around Rickmansworth an the canals + river Colne area grassies were prolific and i see a lot with more orangie coloured collars than the usual yellow keith
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