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Lesley Cox

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Re: wildlife
« Reply #1530 on: October 03, 2020, 12:14:31 AM »
Quote from: Hans J on October 01, 2020, 12:40:06 PM
yesterday we saw by a walk on Kaiserstuhl our first green lizard (Lacerta bilineata )
The animal was so friendly to wait a little that we could make ( a more or less ) good picture :)

Have fun
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Certainly I have cataracts in both eyes but I can still read with some difficulty and am still allowed (just) to drive. Yet peer as I might I can see no sign of anything in this photograph that looks anything remotely like any part of a lizard. Any clues please?
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Re: wildlife
« Reply #1531 on: October 03, 2020, 02:01:28 AM »
Lesley,

Look in the top right corner.  The lizard sports a black spot diagonally below and to the left of it's eye.

Personally I was decided to get a cataract op. when I could no longer distinguish grass from crocus seedlings.
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Re: wildlife
« Reply #1532 on: October 03, 2020, 10:16:22 AM »
Articles in papers recently about pheasants decimating the UK Adder population.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/oct/01/adder-extinct-across-britain-snake-threat-game-birds-release
 We get an occasional Grass snake in the garden and adders were not uncommon many years ago locally, but not seen any for some years. I have somewhere a photo of a whole group, nest?, of Slow worms (a legless lizard) taken in my now current garden ~30 years ago. Since living here I have only seen 1, and that had fallen into the water stop tap hole. Maybe my pheasants have wiped them out too.
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Re: wildlife
« Reply #1533 on: October 03, 2020, 10:55:22 AM »
Quote from: Lesley Cox on October 03, 2020, 12:14:31 AM
Certainly I have cataracts in both eyes but I can still read with some difficulty and am still allowed (just) to drive. Yet peer as I might I can see no sign of anything in this photograph that looks anything remotely like any part of a lizard. Any clues please?

Hello Lesley ,

please look here ...I have the animal marked :)

With best wishes from Germany
Hans
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Re: wildlife
« Reply #1534 on: October 03, 2020, 03:25:33 PM »
Hi all ,

what do you think who was at my window?

We haven't actually seen her for a long time (in the usual places) ... so that we suspected she had migrated ... now she probably wants to go into the house (it's cold and wet outside)

Hans
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Re: wildlife
« Reply #1535 on: October 03, 2020, 06:48:37 PM »
Amazing. How big is she?
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Re: wildlife
« Reply #1536 on: October 03, 2020, 07:01:29 PM »
Quote from: Hans J on October 03, 2020, 03:25:33 PM
Hi all ,

what do you think who was at my window?

We haven't actually seen her for a long time (in the usual places) ... so that we suspected she had migrated ... now she probably wants to go into the house (it's cold and wet outside)

Hans

fun, no mantises here...
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Re: wildlife
« Reply #1537 on: October 03, 2020, 07:28:47 PM »
Quote from: Gail on October 03, 2020, 06:48:37 PM
Amazing. How big is she?

mhhh ...is difficult ...I had not a ruler with me
We think it could be 10 - 12 cm

Here is a picture of this animal in May - one day after his "birth"  ( around 1 cm )
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Re: wildlife
« Reply #1538 on: October 03, 2020, 07:43:38 PM »
here is another ( not so good ) picture from 17.07.2020
...it is eating a wasp !
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Re: wildlife
« Reply #1539 on: October 05, 2020, 11:35:37 AM »
on 31.07. by my daily conroll I could see that this animal has start with molts its skin
on next mornig I found this :
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Re: wildlife
« Reply #1540 on: October 06, 2020, 07:44:30 PM »
Quote from: Hans J on October 05, 2020, 11:35:37 AM
on 31.07. by my daily conroll I could see that this animal has start with molts its skin
on next mornig I found this :

Are they native there, or introduced? It seems they have been intentionally introduced in many places.
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Re: wildlife
« Reply #1541 on: October 06, 2020, 08:06:25 PM »
Hi Cohan ,

They are native here ...I know this animals since more than 20 years
We live here in the warmest part of Germany ...
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Re: wildlife
« Reply #1542 on: October 07, 2020, 02:02:57 PM »
Today I have remember that we have seen such animals also in France ( March 2017 )
« Last Edit: October 07, 2020, 02:04:34 PM by Hans J »
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Re: wildlife
« Reply #1543 on: October 08, 2020, 12:08:02 PM »
breaking news
today in the morning I saw a new Oothek of our Mantis :)

It was placed near the water tap ( for the garden ) ....OK ...this place is a little silly ....

This is near (50 cm ) from the Muhlenbergia Grass ( where the animal most time live )

Size : 3,5 cm
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Re: wildlife
« Reply #1544 on: October 09, 2020, 04:12:06 PM »
Hans, your photos of the green lizard brought back happy memories of a holiday in the Alpujarras 13 years ago. On a walk, my wife and I came across this beautiful pair of ocellated lizards Timon lepidus - Europe's largest lizard - courting. The male is the one with the big head [insert joke of your choice here]. The male was quite bold which allowed me to get some excellent photos of this magnificant animal.

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