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01-05-2008, 07:39 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Corfe Mullen, Dorset
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| | | Smooth Snakes
I just thought you might like to see pictures of a couple of Smooth Snakes I found today at the side of the road on the A31 in Dorset, under corrugated sheets.  
As you can imagine I'm incredibly excited to find them, as I believe they are our rarest reptile in the UK.
I'm hoping someone isn't going to turn round and say they are something else!
Jane |
01-05-2008, 07:41 PM
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| | | Re: Smooth Snakes
A Great find well done. |
01-05-2008, 07:56 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Sep 2006
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| | | Re: Smooth Snakes
Nice work! I was really pleased to find a couple of Smooth Snakes on one of the Dorset heaths last weekend, they're such special reptiles!
Guy |
01-05-2008, 08:31 PM
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| | | Re: Smooth Snakes
Thanks. My first EVER smooth snakes.... yet to see an adder. You would think they would be a lot easier - but I'm still searching!
Jane |
02-05-2008, 03:23 PM
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| | | Re: Smooth Snakes
Nice find, great photos. 
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03-05-2008, 08:02 PM
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| | | Re: Smooth Snakes
Nice find... PM sent.
Mark
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30-05-2008, 09:46 PM
|  | Wild Member | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Eastleigh, Hampshire
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| | | Re: Smooth Snakes
I think those are the tins and refugia me and Arvensis looked at not so long ago, we found smooth snakes, adders, common lizards, a grass snake and a melanistic (or very dark coloured) common lizard, so they are good places to look and im sure you will find your adder there soon, carefull when you lift the refugia though, dont want your first adder encounter to be a bad one. |
02-06-2008, 09:51 PM
| | Wild Member | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Eastleigh, Hampshire
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| | | Re: Smooth Snakes
Watch out for the police to, as the police HQ is nearby and we were stopped and questioned to what we were doing, once we showed them our liscences they were ok and seemed quite interested, even asked to see the photos i had taken!
Its actually the first time ive ever had to show my liscence, and to be honest i dont think the cops actualy knew you needed a liscence for the smooth snakes and sand lizards, but they do now! |
03-06-2008, 07:36 AM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Corfe Mullen, Dorset
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| | | Re: Smooth Snakes
I've seen two adders now... both females but in different places. One on Upton Heath (on a sunny morning) and the other at Verwood, in a field belonging to a friend. Here is the Verwood one. You can see that she has a slight injury on her tail. Any idea what would cause this?   |
03-06-2008, 03:24 PM
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| | | Re: Smooth Snakes
Excellent photos. Not sure what could have caused tail injury.
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