Found a blue tailed skink today. - Page 2

Ssthisto · #11 (**permalink**) 30-04-2008, 08:19 AM

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Originally Posted by tore676

Haven't seen any scorps over here. I really want to find that gecko again though. I really should have snaped a pic of it to make sure it was a leo but it had spots so i am only assuming. anoles are everywhere where but mostly brown, once in a while you find a green one.

It won't have been a leopard gecko if it was a native North Carolina lizard - Leos come from India, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Could have been one of the Coleonyx banded geckos though...

Was it a climber with wide, flat toe-tips, or did it have more normal 'lizard feet' and a thicker tail?

Queenb · #12 (**permalink**) 30-04-2008, 11:11 AM

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Originally Posted by SaichyBoy

Is there scorpions in England ...

Well I know there is 6 reps here though ..

Yup on the isle of sheppy in kent... they live in the harbour walls, as they were introduced from the ships coming in from warmer climates and since the walls are pretty warm and moist they have stayed and bred.

Cyberlizard · #13 (**permalink**) 01-05-2008, 07:57 PM

The Euscorpius scorpions on Sheppey are pretty harmless unless you're unfortunate enough to have an allergy. In fact all those small 5cm long Euscorpius species around Europe are. It's the Buthus ones you have to watch out for in the Mediterranean area.

In my own garden I have found Bufo bufo and Rana temporaria, which was encouraging.

Re grass snakes, I wouldn't be tempted to keep them as they seem to like frogs in their diet. Not sure whether they also go for fish.

tore676 · #14 (**permalink**) 02-05-2008, 04:41 AM

yea I am now in florida for a few more weeks, After asking around I guess it was a Mediterranean gecko.

HABU · #15 (**permalink**) 02-05-2008, 05:09 AM

in florida you never know what you might come across.

gizzard · #16 (**permalink**) 12-05-2008, 05:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Cyberlizard

The Euscorpius scorpions on Sheppey are pretty harmless unless you're unfortunate enough to have an allergy. In fact all those small 5cm long Euscorpius species around Europe are. It's the Buthus ones you have to watch out for in the Mediterranean area.

In my own garden I have found Bufo bufo and Rana temporaria, which was encouraging.

Re grass snakes, I wouldn't be tempted to keep them as they seem to like frogs in their diet. Not sure whether they also go for fish.

they definately go for fish!
i was eel fishing in a large river, using a piece of salmon, and caught 5 eels and 12 grass snakes!

Twiisted · #17 (**permalink**) 12-05-2008, 05:43 PM

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Originally Posted by R0NST3R

They only thing I have found in my garden is Ants (and thousands of them) Spiders, Frogs and Garden worms

Yea UK suks for finding reptiles... But id rather that then live in Australia where loads of stuff can kill you lol

Anyone watch that Deadly Dozen on National Geographic last night

liam.b · #18 (**permalink**) 12-05-2008, 06:28 PM

i found a female slow worm today and im not even kidding it was like 2ft! lol it was on the path, so i picked it up and put it in some undergrowth.

HABU · #19 (**permalink**) 12-05-2008, 06:42 PM

i can go right now out back and catch a snake...

JAG Loves Beardies · #20 (**permalink**) 12-05-2008, 07:17 PM

The only native reptile ive ever seen is an adder, when i went on a school trip to hamsterly forest (dont know how to spell it).

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