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Topic: Couple of common lizards...
Posted By: chubsta
Subject: Couple of common lizards...
Date Posted: 04 Jun 2017 at 8:26pm
Had a great day out on Friday at the local RSPB reserve, saw a stoat carrying a rabbit, Marsh Harrier being mobbed by Lapwings, plenty of Cuckoos, loads of great big, fat, hairy caterpillars, and a Grass Snake which unfortunately got away before I managed to get a camera out!

The local Common Lizards were out in force with plenty of different groups enjoying the hot weather - as always, sorry about the poor quality photos but a phone is all we ever have to hand!








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Posted By: Tom Omlette
Date Posted: 04 Jun 2017 at 9:07pm
lovely Smile


Posted By: AGILIS
Date Posted: 05 Jun 2017 at 5:49am
Hi Chubst the right hand one looks a bit green like a wall Liz keith

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Posted By: Iowarth
Date Posted: 07 Jun 2017 at 5:25pm
Apart from the hint of green, the "solidity" of the markings for want of a better way to put it is unusual and very lovely.
Chris


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Posted By: Liz Heard
Date Posted: 16 Jun 2017 at 1:28am
Agree. Nice pics and that right hand one has beautifully bold markings! Don't recall seeing one like that before; thanks for posting!


Posted By: chubsta
Date Posted: 17 Jun 2017 at 3:37pm
So is the consensus that the green one is an unusually coloured Common lizard or could it be something else? We go to Dungeness very regularly and haven't taken much notice of the lizards as they are so common but will try to get more shots of any unusual ones if it is considered worthwhile.


Posted By: S10 WRM
Date Posted: 17 Jun 2017 at 5:19pm
It's a common lizard. The head and the markings are wrong for a wall lizard.
 
In addition it's not in typical wall lizard habitat and it's associating closely with common lizards. 


Posted By: Iowarth
Date Posted: 17 Jun 2017 at 5:36pm
Neither the habitat nor the association with wall lizards would rule it out. Our local thriving wall lizard population thrives in atypical (and even more unsuitable) habitat while wall and common lizards can be seen associating with common lizards at, for example, Boscombe.
Nevertheless it is definitely not a wall lizard - as stated, head shape etc are completely wrong.
There are one or two other lacertid species which it resembles but are almost unknown in the UK even in captivity so i would say it is simply an unusually marked (but not unusually coloured) common lizard.
Chris


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Co-ordinator, Sand Lizard Captive Breeding Programme (RETIRED)


Posted By: chubsta
Date Posted: 17 Jun 2017 at 6:39pm
Cheers guys, I will certainly keep an eye open for more of a similar type, will be interesting to see if that individual is a one-off or whether the markings are common in the area.


Posted By: Tom Omlette
Date Posted: 18 Jun 2017 at 9:04pm
not a great pic but here's a similarly marked north staffs viv from a few years ago.






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