common lizard

[billybunter 72]

the first lizard i have seen in over 20 years not as common as there name sugests

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

Funny that, Billy; As soon as I saw the title of ye post there I thought to myself; " Not much 'common' about those buggers these days. "

 

Can't really remember the last time I saw one either.

[billybunter 72]

Funny that, Billy; As soon as I saw the title of ye post there I thought to myself; " Not much 'common' about those buggers these days. "

 

Can't really remember the last time I saw one either.

 

 

the last one saw ditch was in norfolk in the early ,s

[Squirrel_Basher 17,102]

Very localized round us but some good pockets about .

[zek 0]

Saw a live one a few years ago, on a clump of moss somewhere in Tyrone. It was out enjoying the sun, and ran for cover VERY quickly. Found a dead one in the same area a few months later.

Last year someone local caught one in their garden (North-East coast) and kept it in a jam-jar for me to see.

 

I've never held one tho' - I didn't realise they would sit still that long. I wonder are they kept in captivity - there's so many species of lizard now being kept, you would think so.

 

 

Zek.

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

That's just the thing, Zek; With so many foreighn and more exotic reptiles easily available today, few would bother keeping the 'boring and mundane' Viviparous Lizard. Anyway; They're probably protected to the hilt these days - as they should be.

 

But there are a hard core band of merry men out there. All properly lisenced and switched on, who keep and breed such creatures, for reintroduction schemes And, of course, Captive Bred stock requires no lisence to hold anyway.

 

Whilst I once held a british Tritus cristatus (Crested Newt) lisance, I also had (Captive Bred) Crested's and Natterjack Toads in my own terraria. But then, I was always more into amphibians than reptiles anyway

 

Sand Lizards are the kiddies though. I knew guys breeding those in their garden enclosures. Never heard of anyone pulling off Smooth Snakes though. Now That would be something!

[Guest Frank]

Amazing and i did not know they existed over here, as i have been here for 18 years , you would think i should of seen one by now?

 

Great photo.

 

Frank.

[mad al 146]

Quite common here, often find them in the garden There was a time when I'd have eaten one , but that's another story :whistle:

 

Al

[billybunter 72]

Amazing and i did not know they existed over here, as i have been here for 18 years , you would think i should of seen one by now?

 

Great photo.

 

Frank.

 

 

well frank been talking to a few locals they say that they see plenty on the bogs when footing turf

in the summer months and the local landlady recons if you lick the lizard belly and put it on a burn

then it cures it and when i started to laugh she got the righ hump

[OldTrapCollector 377]

I see them quite frequently sunning themselves on the stone walls up in the hills.

 

I once lifted a corrugated tin sheet on a shooting range in Surrey and saw an adder, common lizard and a slow worm all under the same piece of tin.

 

I like the slow worms, their irridescent sheen makes them look like living threads of quicksilver

 

OTC