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GemmaJF
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Posted: 01 Aug 2005

 

 

The viviparous lizards were out in force in the garden today after the rainy weather. This is a newbie, seen for the first time today. It very obligingly let me get some close-ups.


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Alan Hyde
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Posted: 01 Aug 2005
Suuuperb!!! Nice shot gemma Is thart there a Tick I see on his elbow ?Alan Hyde38565.5442708333
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Posted: 01 Aug 2005

Hi Al, I think it's a tick, it shows up better I think on the original image below. This was taken in-situ, for some reason it just seemed 'interested' in me taking the photographs, the lovely expression was a reaction to the shutter from the previous shot  It didn't scoot off until I attempted to move the annoying bit of vegetation to get a full body shot.

 


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Posted: 01 Aug 2005
Hmmmm, I photographed a Female adder yesterday that reacted in a similar fashion. She remained completely passive and kept on lifting her head towards my lens .

Have you seen any Bubys in your garden yet?
Al


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Posted: 01 Aug 2005
no buby vivi lizards, adults and one sub-adult, and they don't seem to be around all the time, even when conditions are ideal. I was really hoping that we would get a nice fat gravid female 'pop' in the garden so that we could could call it a 'colony'. Still, there is time yet and we have a couple of slow-worms that look very very gravid, who knows there may even be some grassy eggs in the compost heap this year 
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Danial
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Posted: 07 Aug 2005
Here is a lizard from the Scottish Highlands.
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Posted: 10 Aug 2005

And a female from today,


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Posted: 10 Aug 2005

Thursley one.....


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Posted: 15 Aug 2005

My first sighting of a new-born Common Lizard this summer was on Saturday 6 August at a local wet heathland reserve in North Hampshire.  It was basking on a pile of old birch logs (on which I've also frequently seen Grass Snakes). Picture attached.

 

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Peter Vaughan
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Posted: 19 Mar 2006

Well, they're out in force at Thursley today, not upto summer numbers yet, but a strong start for this time of the year .


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Posted: 19 Mar 2006

nice pic Steve is that with your E20 + the new lens you brought

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Posted: 19 Mar 2006
Aye, it was. Not entirely happy with results yet, need some more shots and then play with lighting. I'm thinking the 180mm macro is just a little too long. Would do better with a shorter, faster lens, (mostly for better depth of field) maybe something around 100mm.
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woodlouse
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Posted: 28 Mar 2006

 

I found these two today on Woodbury Common and was struck by the contrasting colouration. Yes the one on the right really was that green!

Can anyone tell the sexes from this pic?

 


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Posted: 28 Mar 2006
Woodlouse I too have found a very similar green viv. lizard on Aylesbeare Common - not far from Woodbury! The picture was on this forum somewhere. Mine looked much more grass green in the flesh than it showed in the photograph - normal apparently. Did yours look greener than it now does in the photo?
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Posted: 28 Mar 2006

Hi Suzi. Yes, when I saw it I was struck by the intensity of the colour, and I don't think the photo quite captures that.

I've only ever seen one other like it and that was several years ago and within 100yds or so of this one. Maybe this one is a descendant?

I also saw a totally black adult once in the same vicinity.

 


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Posted: 30 Mar 2006

 

Male and female to me - 

Individual on the right is a male while the animal on the left or bottom is a female to me

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Posted: 30 Mar 2006

 

the brown individual may be a male - I cant see the tail for its shape

do you know?

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GemmaJF
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Posted: 30 Mar 2006
I'm gonna go for two males. As you say Jon the one on the right is easy as you can see the swelling at the tail base, other not so easy but my feeling from the markings and general shape is male.
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John Newton
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Posted: 30 Mar 2006

Hi Jon/Gemma

The animal on the right is a definite male;'looks' like one and has the tail basal swelling. The brown animal on the lower left is also a definite male;'looks' like one and has the broad head profile of a male.

 


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Posted: 30 Mar 2006
Last week we came across a really bright light green common lizard on the Peak District Moors. It paused in full view for perhaps 5 or so seconds, so both of us had a really clear view and I have never seen anything like that colour on a lizard before. Unfortunately I didn't have a camera with me that day. At the weekend John (Newton) did find a greenish lizard nearby but it was more grey-green than in Woodlouse's photo and nowhere near the colour of the one I saw.
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