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Paul Hudson Member Joined: 24 Sep 2004 No. of posts: 33  View other posts by Paul Hudson |
Posted: 19 Mar 2011 found 4 adult male adders plus a dead last years young animal, at a translocation site today in north Cumbria, Do the folks on this forum find adders present on sites where common lizards are absent? it would be interesting to know what juvenile adders would prey on in the absence of common lizard prey, all the other adder sites I know of have common lizard on site,this particular site was a clear fell area .
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will Senior Member Joined: 27 Feb 2007 No. of posts: 330 View other posts by will |
Posted: 19 Mar 2011 Hi Paul I think this was discussed a year or so back, so there's probably loads of anecdotal accounts in the thread if you can find it! - personally I've never found a viable self-sustaining population in an area without Zv for juveniles to prey on. The odd vagrant adult, perhaps. Cheers Will |
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Paul Hudson Member Joined: 24 Sep 2004 No. of posts: 33 View other posts by Paul Hudson |
Posted: 19 Mar 2011 Hi Will Thanks for the reply ,I found the topic 12th September 2008,
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GemmaJF Admin Group Joined: 25 Jan 2003 No. of posts: 2090  View other posts by GemmaJF |
Posted: 19 Mar 2011 link if anyone else is looking for this thread: http://www.herpetofauna.co.uk/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2691 &PN=2 Sounds like another badly thought out translocation, nothing for the juveniles to eat on the site Gemma Fairchild, Independent Ecological Consultant |
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Paul Hudson Member Joined: 24 Sep 2004 No. of posts: 33 View other posts by Paul Hudson |
Posted: 20 Mar 2011 I can't say for certain that the site has no Zv ,there may have been a population on the verges of the forest, or the consultants may have also introduced Zv onto the site, I will try and find out.
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Wolfgang Wuster Senior Member Joined: 23 Apr 2003 No. of posts: 326 View other posts by Wolfgang Wuster |
Posted: 20 Mar 2011 "My" Anglesey site has very few Zv but a pretty substantial adder population. Since it's a fen site, I suspect the juveniles may perhaps be feedng on young frogs..... any thoughts? Wolfgang Wüster School of Biological Sciences, University of Wales, Bangor http://sbsweb.bangor.ac.uk/~bss166/ |
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Paul Hudson Member Joined: 24 Sep 2004 No. of posts: 33 View other posts by Paul Hudson |
Posted: 21 Mar 2011 Spoke to the site manager today ,and it turns out that the translocation site does have L.v .
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GemmaJF Admin Group Joined: 25 Jan 2003 No. of posts: 2090 View other posts by GemmaJF |
Posted: 21 Mar 2011 Well that's good news Paul, sorry for jumping to conclusions. Lets hope the Lv population is big enough to sustain being eaten by their new chums! Gemma Fairchild, Independent Ecological Consultant |
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Paul Hudson Member Joined: 24 Sep 2004 No. of posts: 33 View other posts by Paul Hudson |
Posted: 22 Mar 2011 I must say I was really chuffed to find out it did have Lv!
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