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dave fixx
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Posted: 05 Aug 2009
Just a bit of fun here.Recently myself and Mick B discovered a new  unrecorded natrix colony and at the same location under a rock we found some crested newts,again a new record.
  This started me thinking as to what surprises people may have had under rocks or refuges.My best is just a grass snake and a slow worm together but I have a feeling lots of you will have far more entertaining reports. 
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Alan Hyde
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Posted: 05 Aug 2009
Hi Dave,

I found a big pile of porn under some refuge (a big sheet of tarpalin).

The local kids had moved it from my grass snake spot and used it to conceal their stash

Al
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longcrippler
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Posted: 05 Aug 2009
Al

Would that be frogsporn?
Alan Hyde
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Posted: 05 Aug 2009
[QUOTE=longcrippler] Al

Would that be frogsporn? [/QUOTE]



But seriously,
Dave, the only sort of odd thing i've found is a melanistic adder laying in the nest of the mouse it had obviously just eaten
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calumma
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Posted: 05 Aug 2009
I once found a plastic snake under one of my tins. I seem to remember that
Gemma had visited the site just a few days before.... calumma40030.8431365741
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tim hamlett
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Posted: 06 Aug 2009

i once found a common frog, a common toad, several smooth newts and a great crested newt under the same log. ironically, i was actually looking for porn at the time.

tim


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Posted: 06 Aug 2009
[QUOTE=tim hamlett]

i once found a common frog, a common toad, several smooth newts and a great crested newt under the same log. ironically, i was actually looking for porn at the time.


tim

[/QUOTE]


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Suzi
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Posted: 06 Aug 2009

Refuge finds - your best

Well actually finding some of my solitary tins that are off the beaten track feels like a best find on the day


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dave fixx
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Posted: 06 Aug 2009
Didnt expect the thread to be this funny but glad I started it.When we were kids I remember finding a lingerie catalogue near the newt ponds we visited ,is there a trend here or what?
  Found a grassie under a refuge that I put down almost as a dare to the snakes ,this evening .I dont think there is any part of that particular site they dont visit.
  Dont give up the search Tim,yo ll find it wen you least expect it.

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Robert V
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Posted: 07 Aug 2009

I found an unexploded grenade under a tin once, obviously a booby trap more deadly than porn!

 


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Posted: 07 Aug 2009

and under another tin I found Ray Mears.


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frogworlduk
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Posted: 07 Aug 2009
not under it but i once had a fiver that had got caught under one of the edges in an urban site. NICCEEEE!
dave fixx
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Posted: 08 Aug 2009
I had 3 grassies under one tin yesterday but has anyone had all 3 species ?
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Suzi
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Posted: 08 Aug 2009
Yes adder, grass snake and slow worm. But if you were thinking adder, grassie and smoothie no. No smoothies yes in East Devon.
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calumma
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Posted: 08 Aug 2009
A few years ago, I once went on a field trip to the north French coast with
RG and a few other DICE students. Under a rock on one site we found 6
species of amphibian (including a young natterjack and, if memory serves, a
parsley frog). Knowing Brian Banks would be visiting the site the following
week, we left a note under it: "6 Species Stone!". Apparently he did find the
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Peter
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Posted: 10 Aug 2009

Didn`t David Bird lift a tin with all three snake species beneath it when he did a "find all six reptile species in one day" thing for television last year?





tim hamlett
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Posted: 10 Aug 2009
[QUOTE=Peter]

Didn`t David Bird lift a tin with all three snake species beneath it when he did a "find all six reptile species in one day" thing for television last year?

[/QUOTE]

he did indeed

tim


dave fixx
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Posted: 10 Aug 2009
Peter wrote:

Didn`t David Bird lift a tin with all three snake species beneath it when he did a "find all six reptile species in one day" thing for television last year?

he did indeed

tim


that must have been a buzz.





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David Bird
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Posted: 11 Aug 2009
Yes quite correct, thanks for remembering it. That particular tin often has 2 or 3 adders under it, plus 2 grass snakes and an adult Smooth Snake, which 2 years ago had just given birth to 3 baby smoothies, still very wet and with the associated other snakes present. I have also had an occasional Slow Worm under there and had a juvenile Common Lizard on the tin one time, have not had a Sand Lizard on it yet but have had them on and under a tin 11m away so a great little spot. Is always a good tin to show to people who come out to see the heathland reptiles.
Once found a tin on Godlingstone Heath which when lifted had a mass of adult Smooth Snakes under, I just saw a pile of snake bodes and could believe there was not an adder among them so did not dive in straight away, the mass started to unwind and then I started to pick up snakes 5 Smooth Snakes and another that escaped into the heather if I remember correctly, had to put several in my pockets and bike helmet whilst I measured, sexed and drew the head and neck patterns of each, certainly was not expecting anything like this number to have to cope with.

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AGILIS
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Posted: 11 Aug 2009
Hi David I only hope this wasnt on the same bit of heath that got incinerated last year that I looked at.
But your finds sound pretty stunning    keith
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