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Ginger! Member Joined: 01 Jun 2007 No. of posts: 6  View other posts by Ginger! |
Posted: 01 Jun 2007 Last year I rekindled my interest in snakes and managed to find two grassies, one mature, one little bootlace and two common lizards, all on the same site. It's a small reserve (9 hectares) in East Hertfordshire. This year I cannot find a thing. The wildlife trust trimmed a lot of the growth back, but still looks OK as habitat. Is it me or is it possible there were only a few animals here in the first place? Anyone got any confirmed sites in Herts for me to go to please?? |
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st rick Senior Member Joined: 26 Apr 2006 No. of posts: 141  View other posts by st rick |
Posted: 01 Jun 2007 Hi Ginger Sorry you had such bad luck. In my opinion, Herts is a funny county for reptiles, I read somewhere that Adders are practically extinct there, on the other hand, most of the Grassies seem to crop up closest to London and away from the deeper countryside. There are a string of lakes and reservoirs that extend south of Cassiobury Park in Watford, through Rickmansworth and in to S. Bucks around the Denham region that are really good for Grassies, however. |
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AGILIS Senior Member Joined: 27 Feb 2007 No. of posts: 694  View other posts by AGILIS |
Posted: 02 Jun 2007 hi ginger yes as Rick said many years back the string of lakes around Rickmansworth an the canals + river Colne area grassies were prolific and i see a lot with more orangie coloured collars than the usual yellow keith LOCAL ICYNICAL CELTIC ECO WARRIOR AND FAILED DRUID |
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