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one for Keith

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Category: Herpetofauna Native to the UK
Forum Name: Smooth Snake
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Topic: one for Keith
Posted By: will
Subject: one for Keith
Date Posted: 21 Jul 2011 at 8:19pm
went for a visit to Dorset to do some smooth snake work; saw 4 out in the open, including these two lovely gravid ladies, reckon just a few metres from Keith's superb obs of mating smoothies earlier in the season:







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Posted By: dave fixx
Date Posted: 21 Jul 2011 at 8:52pm
some great pics on here today.Big smile

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Posted By: Liz Heard
Date Posted: 21 Jul 2011 at 10:55pm
that first ones brilliant!


Posted By: herpetologic2
Date Posted: 21 Jul 2011 at 11:27pm
Hi Will

when you say work is that conservation or professional?

J


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Posted By: will
Date Posted: 22 Jul 2011 at 8:13am
Cheers Ben!  Jon - please see previous thread 'smooth snakes overwintering when gravid' - a research project for conservation purposes (hopefully!)


Posted By: AGILIS
Date Posted: 22 Jul 2011 at 5:06pm
Well spotted Will good to be able to see them out.Hope to be going to that area next week when the weekends over. what was the L.a.and other species situation like? keith

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   LOCAL ICYNICAL CELTIC ECO WARRIOR AND FAILED DRUID


Posted By: will
Date Posted: 22 Jul 2011 at 6:29pm
I was mainly focused on smooth snakes but saw a male adder, a couple of sand lizards and some slowworms, in fact I was only lacking grass snake.


Posted By: tim hamlett
Date Posted: 22 Jul 2011 at 8:00pm
great shots.

funny but i don't think i'd dream of looking so close to the road, just goes to show.

tim


Posted By: AGILIS
Date Posted: 23 Jul 2011 at 6:44am
The great thing is that it shows that the CA are well established and seem pretty prolific in the area,I wonder if the lack of grass snake sightings could it be that the smooth snakes have eaten them up?

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Posted By: arvensis
Date Posted: 28 Sep 2011 at 10:10am
Going down to Purbeck tomorrow and hopefully find some Ca myself - it would be nice to see another one out in the open!

Mark



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