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Peter Vaughan Senior Member Joined: 21 Mar 2005 No. of posts: 170  View other posts by Peter Vaughan |
Posted: 14 Mar 2010 Conditions seemed right for Grass Snakes to emerge here in north east Hampshire today - 12 C and, at least in the morning, bright sunshine, and the first butterflies of the year on the wing. I searched at mid-day without apparent success at two local sites, the only hint of anything being a small patch of olive green at the base of some dead braken (less than a metre away from a basking Adder). I had convinced myself that was nothing more than a couple of green leaves but on examing a photograph this evening this is what I found:
So the Grass Snake season has begun here, if a little unspectacularly! Peter Vaughan |
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dave fixx Senior Member Joined: 13 Mar 2007 No. of posts: 319  View other posts by dave fixx |
Posted: 15 Mar 2010 Nice one Peter.Gives me a bit of hope for my searching a possible new site tomorrow.Great timing. 
Dave Williams davewilliamsphotography.co.uk |
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kevinb Senior Member Joined: 18 Mar 2009 No. of posts: 61 View other posts by kevinb |
Posted: 17 Mar 2010 I went to a site in the Mendips yesterday and saw 5 Grass snakes and 6 Adders, 4 Grass snakes in one location, possibly the hibernaculum. |
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st rick Senior Member Joined: 26 Apr 2006 No. of posts: 141  View other posts by st rick |
Posted: 20 Mar 2010 Plenty of Grass Snakes out on Thursday at Burnham Beeches. I saw about 15 and only 6 Adders. It's usually the other way round at this time of year. 
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Chris Monk Senior Member Joined: 21 Apr 2004 No. of posts: 157 View other posts by Chris Monk |
Posted: 21 Mar 2010 Out today on the moors looking for adders, at one of their hibernation emergence where an adder was seen last spring I was surprised to come across an adult grass snake which quickly disappeared into cover. About 100 metres south a running lizard lizard drew attention to this stick in the bracken, which turned out to be a juvenile grass snake. 
Derbyshire Amphibian & Reptile Group www.derbyshirearg.co.uk |
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herpetologic2 Senior Member Joined: 15 Jun 2004 No. of posts: 1369  View other posts by herpetologic2 |
Posted: 21 Mar 2010 Anyone who would like to cover known adder sites this spring (for example Burnham Beeches) please get in touch I can send a MTAC survey form for 2010 regards J Vice Chair of ARG UK - self employed consultant - visit ARG UK & Alresford Wildlife |
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dave fixx Senior Member Joined: 13 Mar 2007 No. of posts: 319 View other posts by dave fixx |
Posted: 06 Apr 2010 First one of the year for me.  
Dave Williams davewilliamsphotography.co.uk |
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tim hamlett Senior Member Joined: 17 Dec 2006 No. of posts: 572  View other posts by tim hamlett |
Posted: 07 Apr 2010 difficult to get such good in situ shots of grass snakes...nice pics dave. tim |
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Matt Harris Senior Member Joined: 03 Jun 2003 No. of posts: 196 View other posts by Matt Harris |
Posted: 21 Apr 2010 Originally counted this as one (couldn't / didn't want to get close), but there's two having a cwtch at the heathland restoration site in Sunday. In five years of monitoring we've only seen one grassie, but this year we've had 3 already.  Gwent Amphibian and Reptile Group (GARG) |
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Vicar Senior Member Joined: 02 Sep 2004 No. of posts: 1181 View other posts by Vicar |
Posted: 21 Apr 2010 Short video clip of a 2-male mating ball from the Basingstoke Canal yesterday. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWvPqkRZjl8 Steve Langham - Chairman 
Surrey Amphibian & Reptile Group (SARG). |
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st rick Senior Member Joined: 26 Apr 2006 No. of posts: 141 View other posts by st rick |
Posted: 22 Apr 2010 Great Video Vicar and I liked the foxes too! Rick |
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Vicar Senior Member Joined: 02 Sep 2004 No. of posts: 1181 View other posts by Vicar |
Posted: 22 Apr 2010 Heh, cheers Rick. 'Somebody' was digging holes in the garden at night, so I rigged up a motion-activated camera and caught the culprit red-handed! Trouble was he was so cute, that I didn't have the heart to do ought about it  .http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqCFXvk3Wbo Steve Langham - Chairman
Surrey Amphibian & Reptile Group (SARG). |
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Mark_b Senior Member Joined: 26 Jun 2008 No. of posts: 79 View other posts by Mark_b |
Posted: 27 Apr 2010
Saw this grass snake eating a toad last week :) 
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dave fixx Senior Member Joined: 13 Mar 2007 No. of posts: 319 View other posts by dave fixx |
Posted: 18 Jul 2010 heres one from yesterday. 
Dave Williams davewilliamsphotography.co.uk |
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tim hamlett Senior Member Joined: 17 Dec 2006 No. of posts: 572 View other posts by tim hamlett |
Posted: 18 Jul 2010 hi dave lovely looking snake...it looks in beautiful condition. sounds like you've had better weather in wales than we have here in stoke. windy and rainy. not been out at all in over a week. tim |
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Suzi Senior Member Joined: 06 Apr 2005 No. of posts: 860 View other posts by Suzi |
Posted: 18 Jul 2010 Have we seen moving images on here before? Neat. Suz |
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Robert V Senior Member Joined: 06 Aug 2004 No. of posts: 717 View other posts by Robert V |
Posted: 22 Jul 2010 Hey Dave, Looks like the one on the log could be related to the poorly grassie you posted a while back, were they caught near each other??? Rob PS Poorly Grassie by Dave page 5 under Grass Snakes <IMG title=" ... Shift+R improves the quality of this image. CTRL+F5 reloads the whole page." alt=undefined src="http://1.2.3.9/bmi/1.2.3.13/bmi/www.herpetofauna.co.uk/ forum/upload s/davefixx/2008-09-25_054640_GetAttachment.aspx.jpeg" border=0 bmi_touched="1" bmi_title=" ... Shift+R improves the quality of this image. CTRL+F5 reloads the whole page\** RobV |
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dave fixx Senior Member Joined: 13 Mar 2007 No. of posts: 319 View other posts by dave fixx |
Posted: 23 Jul 2010 Well remembered Rob ,same site and that is a distict possibility ,not exactly sure where Mick caught the poorly one but it was within 150 yards I think,possibly in the exact same area.All the ones I ve turned up there this year (and there have been many) have all looked healthy. Dave Dave Williams davewilliamsphotography.co.uk |
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Robert V Senior Member Joined: 06 Aug 2004 No. of posts: 717 View other posts by Robert V |
Posted: 23 Jul 2010 Dave, it's more the creamy colour scales around the eye that gives the game away, same clutch I reckon. Rob RobV |
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dave fixx Senior Member Joined: 13 Mar 2007 No. of posts: 319 View other posts by dave fixx |
Posted: 23 Jul 2010 I ve seen alot of that sort of age group this year,there seem to be loads of young grassies around from the last couple of years.Lets hope they stay healthy and live to a good age. Dave Williams davewilliamsphotography.co.uk |
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