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RAUK - Archived Forum - Dorset March 24th

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daveg
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Joined: 02 Jul 2006
No. of posts: 24


View other posts by daveg 		Posted: 25 Mar 2011

 

Hi folks,

had a look at Studland yesterday, fantastic weather for March. Loads of grass snakes (well 7 or 8) in one bracken patch - must be the hibernaculum I suppose. No adders or smooth snakes seen, but 1 lone ranger sand lizard hiding in the bracken near to the grass snakes. Are adders becoming rare at Studland or am I just not very good at finding them probably a bit of both.

 

 

A mini mating ball of 2  ?

Below, sand lizard, my first of the year!

Hope the fine weather continues!

Dave

 
JamesM
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Joined: 12 Mar 2011
No. of posts: 43


View other posts by JamesM 		Posted: 25 Mar 2011
Great pictures. Thanks for sharing!
AGILIS
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Joined: 27 Feb 2007
No. of posts: 694


View other posts by AGILIS 		Posted: 27 Mar 2011
They sure are getting scarcer in the past they where
very abundant & you sometimes see them in the beach area ,
even the sandies are nowhere near as prolific due to the
disturbance by holiday traffic.but they are still hanging
in there!
keith     AGILIS40629.2462037037
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