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06-04-2007, 09:35 PM
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| | | Reptiles at Wye & Crundale (Kent)
Had a lovely day on the Wye & Crundale Downs, seeing two Common Lizards (one brown and the other olive green), and also a large Grass Snake, my first reptiles of the year! |
07-04-2007, 07:37 AM
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| | | Re: Reptiles at Wye & Crundale (Kent)
Always great to see- so far I've only seen 2 male Adders + Red-eared Terrapin. |
07-04-2007, 07:47 AM
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| | | Re: Reptiles at Wye & Crundale (Kent)
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Originally Posted by aeshna5  Always great to see- so far I've only seen 2 male Adders + Red-eared Terrapin. | That's 3 more reps than me then!
I suppose the Terrapin was from some mis-guided person releasing it into the wild 
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08-04-2007, 09:11 PM
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| | | Re: Reptiles at Wye & Crundale (Kent)
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Originally Posted by Wild-Woman That's 3 more reps than me then!
I suppose the Terrapin was from some mis-guided person releasing it into the wild | Virtually every lake around London has a small number of these yankee reptiles which have been illegally released. Before their sale was banned they were popular especially with the mutant ninja turtle craze. Trouble is they grow, can be smelly + harbour pathogens like salmonella, so get dumped in the nearest waterbody. It may be illegal, but not easy to enforce!
So far there's been no direct evidence (to best of my knowledge) that they've bred in the wild in UK, but as our summers get hotter I'm sure this will happen. We've got a handful on a local nature reserve I'm involved with + they don't seem to be that much of a problem, though they can get onto grebes nests + probably take some chicks. |
08-04-2007, 09:30 PM
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| | | Re: Reptiles at Wye & Crundale (Kent)
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Originally Posted by aeshna5 Virtually every lake around London has a small number of these yankee reptiles which have been illegally released. Before their sale was banned they were popular especially with the mutant ninja turtle craze. Trouble is they grow, can be smelly + harbour pathogens like salmonella, so get dumped in the nearest waterbody. It may be illegal, but not easy to enforce!
So far there's been no direct evidence (to best of my knowledge) that they've bred in the wild in UK, but as our summers get hotter I'm sure this will happen. We've got a handful on a local nature reserve I'm involved with + they don't seem to be that much of a problem, though they can get onto grebes nests + probably take some chicks. | Years ago I can remember seeing a terrapin in a ditch/canal in Cambridge. It shocked me because of its size. Probably the size of a saucer! 
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