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zarozinia · Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 12:12 am Post subject: Slow worms in our garden

I decided recently to change our garden into a little wildlife haven and not cut the grass, let the weeds and wildflowers grow so I could entice more wildlife such as Goldfinches, various insects etc (partially for me to practice my photography on). Well we had a lovely surprise tonight and discovered my ploy worked even better than I had ever imagined. We pulled our rabbit hutch out to clean behind it and discovered a pair of slow worms, hopefully they will be there tomorrow in daylight so I can get some decent shots of them. I have supplied them with a little more protection from out cats too by blocking the cats access to the area where we found them. if I do discover that they have ventured into a more risky area of our garden where the cats will most likely catch them, then I will seek advice on where would be best to relocate them to locally in order to protect them.
I did need to disturb them briefly to move the rabbit dung, but replaced the damp hay and straw that was there. So I did try to leave the area pretty much the same as we found it.
Here's the photos I grabbed whilst my daughter was finishing off her rabbits hutch. They were only out for around 15 minutes and incredibly friendly. They're not that good as I didn't want to stress them plus it was dark rapidly, so I did rush taking them.
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Ailurus · Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 12:19 am Post subject:

great shots!!

i like slow worms, we used to get quite a few in our garden when we lived in Bristol, never see any now though

thanks for sharing
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SteveL · Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 12:26 am Post subject:

Great pics!
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zarozinia · Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 12:46 am Post subject:

jamie_s · Site Moderator Joined: 08 Jan 2006 Posts: 1963

how cools that!!!!! it just proves that with a slight bit of tinkering what can be acheived in your garden Wink

i hope they like the flouro pool area Laughing

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Morbid · Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 1:32 pm Post subject:

I really like the last shot!!
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zarozinia · Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 12:12 am Post subject:

Hey there are 3 today, now I just need to persuade Pete not to cut the grass lol, dont want to kill them with our nasty machines.
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Lynne · Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 12:16 am Post subject:

break his mower. did you plant certain plants angie? what ones did you plant. i fancy doing that with my front garden, but i wont get anything as fancy as you do. maybe butterflies and stuff like that though.

amazing pics.
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Jack · Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 12:20 am Post subject:

wow they well beat the 2 snails i found today
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James · CaptiveBred Addict! Joined: 16 Sep 2007 Posts: 933

great shots, i haven't seen these in ages