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Paul Hudson Member Joined: 24 Sep 2004 No. of posts: 33 View other posts in this topic	Posted: 16 Aug 2009 Topic: What is it? Hi ,Most defintely an alpine newt ,a young male , Which county was it found in just out of interest ? Paul Hudson

Paul Hudson Member Joined: 24 Sep 2004 No. of posts: 33 View other posts in this topic	Posted: 16 Aug 2009 Topic: Egg laying sites Hi , Does any one on this forum have any experience of constructing an egg laying site for natrix ? I would like to know what time of year is best for construction ? best materials to use ? size ? etc also has any one discovered a natural nest site ? surely not all animals will find compost/dung heaps . Thanks in advance Paul Hudson Paul Hudson

Paul Hudson Member Joined: 24 Sep 2004 No. of posts: 33 View other posts in this topic	Posted: 18 Aug 2009 Topic: Egg laying sites Thanks for the info guys Paul Hudson Paul Hudson

Paul Hudson Member Joined: 24 Sep 2004 No. of posts: 33 View other posts in this topic	Posted: 03 Sep 2009 Topic: Sand Lizards... Hi Agilis, All the re-intros using current year juvs take place in September and it works a treat! I have bred over 500 young sand lizards( Merseyside )race for this project over the past 6 years. Cheers Paul Hudson. Paul Hudson

Paul Hudson Member Joined: 24 Sep 2004 No. of posts: 33 View other posts in this topic	Posted: 25 Oct 2009 Topic: Reptiles vs Rain What do You mean mitigating by weather? have You really got 5 years worth of experiance in these matters? Paul Hudson Paul Hudson

Paul Hudson Member Joined: 24 Sep 2004 No. of posts: 33 View other posts in this topic	Posted: 24 Nov 2009 Topic: Inside out & Boscombe Aliens Has any one got a link for the inside out show that featured the wall lizards? Paul Hudson Paul Hudson

Paul Hudson Member Joined: 24 Sep 2004 No. of posts: 33 View other posts in this topic	Posted: 07 Jan 2010 Topic: Pete Stafford Peter wrote a very good book on British Lizards (Shire publication) ,some decent pics in there of Merseyside and Dorset sand lizards Paul Hudson Paul Hudson

Paul Hudson Member Joined: 24 Sep 2004 No. of posts: 33 View other posts in this topic	Posted: 17 Jan 2010 Topic: Hibernating frogs.... Those frogs look dead ,I would get them out of the pond as they will pollute the water! Paul Hudson

Paul Hudson Member Joined: 24 Sep 2004 No. of posts: 33 View other posts in this topic	Posted: 17 Jan 2010 Topic: Hibernating frogs.... I had a very small ,shallow garden pond years ago back in the 1980,s and one Spring following a prolonged freeze I removed over 50 dead adult frogs ,the pond was probably about 1 foot in depth ,totally useless for hibernation purposes, However that same Spring saw dozens of clumps of spawn ,perhaps that had come from frogs that had hibernated in deeper ponds elsewhere or in terrestrial haunts. Paul Hudson Paul Hudson

Paul Hudson Member Joined: 24 Sep 2004 No. of posts: 33 View other posts in this topic	Posted: 04 Mar 2010 Topic: Adders 2010 First male adder seen today 4 miles north of Penrith, Cumbria ,6oC sunny cloudless skies , unfortunately this site is being churned up by a herd of Highland cattle!! Paul Hudson Paul Hudson

Paul Hudson Member Joined: 24 Sep 2004 No. of posts: 33 View other posts in this topic	Posted: 13 Mar 2010 Topic: Still in bed What an unusual find! How big was the stone? how thick? was it on sloped or flat ground? which County? I have found common lizards in the past hibernating under paving slabs at the foot of a south facing slope at a site in north Cumbria, I would of thought with a winter as cold as the one we've just had those lizards would of perished. Paul Hudson Paul Hudson

Paul Hudson Member Joined: 24 Sep 2004 No. of posts: 33 View other posts in this topic	Posted: 17 Mar 2010 Topic: Still in bed I'm sure that if having got through the winter then they would be fine and would not need to be interfered with Paul Hudson Paul Hudson

Paul Hudson Member Joined: 24 Sep 2004 No. of posts: 33 View other posts in this topic	Posted: 17 Mar 2010 Topic: First Frogspawn First frog spawn seen up here in Penrith ,Cumbria on the 14th March ,not at all late by Cumbrian standards Paul Hudson

Paul Hudson Member Joined: 24 Sep 2004 No. of posts: 33 View other posts in this topic	Posted: 26 Mar 2010 Topic: First Frogspawn How deep is your pond? It may develop slowly or not at all at the bottom , last year the majority of the spawn in my pond ended up at the bottom, (2 ft deep )and it died, I assume that frog activity knocked it off the marginal shelf , if I were you I'd place it back in shallow water, providing the tadpoles haven't already started to hatch and are clinging onto the jelly, in which case moving it will result in the newly hatched tadpoles being knocked off ,and in which case they will die. Paul Hudson

Paul Hudson Member Joined: 24 Sep 2004 No. of posts: 33 View other posts in this topic	Posted: 31 Mar 2010 Topic: Unidentified snake Looks like a Mexican black king snake to me Paul Hudson

Paul Hudson Member Joined: 24 Sep 2004 No. of posts: 33 View other posts in this topic	Posted: 18 Apr 2010 Topic: frog identification needed Common toads ,adult and young Paul Hudson

Paul Hudson Member Joined: 24 Sep 2004 No. of posts: 33 View other posts in this topic	Posted: 04 Jun 2010 Topic: Predation from Cats In a study by Ruth Henshaw , 1990,s ,she questioned domestic cat owners whose properties were adjacent to sand lizard populations on Merseyside and quite a few of these people had mentioned that their cats would return home with "green Lizards" .I have also observed cats pouncing in the vegatation in areas where sand lizards occur Paul Hudson

Paul Hudson Member Joined: 24 Sep 2004 No. of posts: 33 View other posts in this topic	Posted: 05 Aug 2010 Topic: TOAD SIGNE I wonder what that guy is up to on the far right side of the photo,It looks like you caught him in an uncompromising position!! the mind boggles! Paul Hudson Paul Hudson40395.7498726852 Paul Hudson

Paul Hudson Member Joined: 24 Sep 2004 No. of posts: 33 View other posts in this topic	Posted: 21 Aug 2010 Topic: Sudbury river Stour towpath Gravid females this late in the year? even the Cumbrian ones seemed to have all given birth by the end of July! Paul Hudson Paul Hudson

Paul Hudson Member Joined: 24 Sep 2004 No. of posts: 33 View other posts in this topic	Posted: 20 Nov 2010 Topic: anti-social climbers I once saw one basking on top of a Mountain!! Paul Hudson

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