More dormousing than herping.......

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Ok, following in Joeo1507's footsteps, i'm uploading the pics i've taking this summer. i'm actually researching any impacts wild boar may be having on dormice (yes, we have wild boar in the UK!), but seem to be coming across more herps than anything else!! Here's the herps i've found:

common toad bufo bufo sneaking up on me

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common frog rana temporaria - he was so quick we had to block him from scampering away!

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though this was a frog initially, but the back legs are quite big - any one?

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grass snake natrix natrix - think its about to shed its skin (check out the eyes!)

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the same snake once it had noticed us and tried to get away!

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female slow worm that didn't quite make it across the road.......

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ok, and now for things that aren't quite herpy, but deserve a look at!!

there really is nothing uglier and cuter than blue *** young!! these guys were nestled in one of my dormouse boxes

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stock dove chick - it was really smelly! the mother doesn't remove their turds from the nest........

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ok, not in the wild, but in an aviary that was huge, so almost in the wild!

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mole remains?

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edible dormouse glis glis - for some reason they poop in the nest boxes that they sleep in.......

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glis glis again - don't be fooled by the cuteness - even those gloves weren't enough to stop their teeth drawing blood! they are very squirrel like, but are about 2/3 of the size and nocturnal

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now for the real reason i've been out and about! this is a female found in a green leaf nest (they usually use honeysuckle bark strippings to weave a nest) and she was defo pregnant!

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who can beat this little one in cuteness? this was one of 5 young

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Wow, the second picture of that grass snake looks so much like our southern ringneck snakes here.
 
oh yeah! just checked out some pictures of the ringneck snake and its uncanny!
 
There are no native salamanders to the UK so...no.
 
we have 3 native newts, but its better to see these at night and 1 of them is pretty rare!

did see 3 adders (2 males, 1 female), but in my awe i forgot to get pics and they quickly left my sight :(
 
Wow fabulous pics, the poor slowworm, and the mole remains look interesting.

Puts mine to shame, I know all too well that we have wild boars ive seen a fair few around here even found a dead one once.

Glad you made this post.
 
It would be terrible to not have ANY native salamanders in the UK.
 
Joeo1507 said:
Puts mine to shame, I know all too well that we have wild boars ive seen a fair few around here even found a dead one once.
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yours are great pics that you set out to get!! so are you in kent/sussex or near the forest of dean then? theres also boar in devon. i just stumbled across mine - im out in woodlands a lot collecting data on hazel dormice. not yet seen any boar, but have defo been close to them as seen fresh signs..........id LOVE to see them, but the closest ive got is hearing feet running away - a sow and piglets that had been snoozing at the forest edge early in the year. but like the newts, these are best seen at night.

since newts are sals, technically we do have 3 native species - 1 impossible to find as its so rare and the other 2 i find difficult to distinguish - defo better with native reptiles!
 
donia said:
yours are great pics that you set out to get!! so are you in kent/sussex or near the forest of dean then? theres also boar in devon. i just stumbled across mine - im out in woodlands a lot collecting data on hazel dormice. not yet seen any boar, but have defo been close to them as seen fresh signs..........id LOVE to see them, but the closest ive got is hearing feet running away - a sow and piglets that had been snoozing at the forest edge early in the year. but like the newts, these are best seen at night.

since newts are sals, technically we do have 3 native species - 1 impossible to find as its so rare and the other 2 i find difficult to distinguish - defo better with native reptiles!
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im in south east kent, in folkestone opposite france :)

Often get the euro tunnel over to visit france must go and have a field herping day there might find some fire sals :p

Ive seen wild boar before and youtube has some good footage, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho2oUytWpWM

read thru here http://www.britishwildboar.org.uk/main.htm
 
yeah, ive had a good look at that website already - really informative and totally contradictory to all the media horror stories!

dont forget your camera if you go herping in france - im still kicking myself for forgetting mine when i saw this amazing male adder that was too cold to move!
 
Lol, next time I go to france Ill try to find a good herping spot :)
 
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