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will Senior Member Joined: 27 Feb 2007 No. of posts: 330  View other posts by will |
Posted: 28 Aug 2008 saw this female sand lizard hungrily snapping up a conehead at Studland - plenty of lizards out trying to feed up after the wet summer and before autumn sets in  |
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will Senior Member Joined: 27 Feb 2007 No. of posts: 330 View other posts by will |
Posted: 02 Aug 2009 I've found that sand lizards in a part of Studland migrate to the damp valley bottom full of rushes and sallow stumps to feast on the abundant grasshopper / conehead prey at this time of year. This was where I took the photo above last summer and this time round I counted 20 sandies in a small area including a male snapping up another conehead (not a great photo - obscured by Juncus rush) as well as two females on the same stump waiting for a hapless insect or spider to come within range. It's certainly much easier to see sand lizards here than on the dry heath above at this time of year. Also it seemed the smaller males were still quite green, with older males much duller. I wonder if there's a reason for this ?   |
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will Senior Member Joined: 27 Feb 2007 No. of posts: 330 View other posts by will |
Posted: 15 Aug 2010 Back from a wettish week in Dorset, and went to the same dune slack as last two years, and around 30 sandies snapping up coneheads, grasshoppers etc - certainly easier spotting them than on the traditional dry heath at this time of year. This male and female sharing the same basking platform in the dense rushes:  |
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AGILIS Senior Member Joined: 27 Feb 2007 No. of posts: 694  View other posts by AGILIS |
Posted: 15 Aug 2010 nice pics Will I havent had much of a la /ca year as not been to the sites, just the other day and the weather turned ,keithLOCAL ICYNICAL CELTIC ECO WARRIOR AND FAILED DRUID |
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will Senior Member Joined: 27 Feb 2007 No. of posts: 330 View other posts by will |
Posted: 15 Aug 2010 Thanks Keith; I've found the damper parts of the heaths are better at this time of year for La; I wonder if Ca move into them to follow the La and also common lizards, a bit like adders often move into damper areas for mammals in the summer. |
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ben rigsby Senior Member Joined: 27 Apr 2010 No. of posts: 337 View other posts by ben rigsby |
Posted: 25 Aug 2010 i loved every one of those will. esp the last one. cheers. Diversity. |
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will Senior Member Joined: 27 Feb 2007 No. of posts: 330 View other posts by will |
Posted: 28 Aug 2010 Thanks Ben, much appreciated! |
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