Female Adders now emerging
Mark Barber wrote '
It's been a month since the first male adders were spotted at Oxwich and on cue the females have started emerging. The males tend to come out a month before the females to get ready for mating, soon the adders will shed their skins, disperse and breed. Females tend to be bigger than males. Females have a brown zig-zag and males have a black zig-zag. Whether it's frog spawn in your garden or a common lizard on your local heath, any amphibian or reptile sightings gratefully received at records@swwarg.co.uk Cheers, Mark'
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3 comments:
Where's the best place to look for Adders at Oxwich? Thanks.
Common Lizards seen at a few sites in the last few days and 4 Grass Snakes were seen 'tussling' at Llanrhidian a couple of days ago. We also saw a Red-necked Terrapin basking at Broad Pool last sunday, so plenty starting to happen during this fin weather.
Jeremy not sure why Mark's posting never appeared, but he replied: 'I am more than happy to show you / advise a few spots, but I would rather not publicise them publicly. My email address is mark.barber at arc-trust.org (replace the at with an @)./
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