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GemmaJF
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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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Paul Hudson
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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.
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will
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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.
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Paul Hudson
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I bet they have a wife swop at some point though!
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will
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pretty much like an Eastenders storyline, I guess..
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will
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same site - from today. That's got to hurt!
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AGILIS
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Were abouts was you will ?keith
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LOCAL ICYNICAL CELTIC ECO WARRIOR AND FAILED DRUID
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will
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mainly down at Studland Keith. On Sunday the sunshine crept across to Purbeck but no further east for much of the day.
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Richard2
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Wonderful pictures - the wild look in that male's eye as he bites! They've got a lot of ticks, though.
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Richard2
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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?
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