Having a tidy up on the compost heap today I found a slow worm, what a
beautiful creature it is.

kate

Following up to Kate Morgan :

Having a tidy up on the compost heap today I found a slow worm, what a
beautiful creature it is.

Lovely aren't they? What shade was its belly? Darker, copper, brown colour
or light, silvery? The darker ones are the females and the lighter ones
males (I think).
--
Tim C.

Having a tidy up on the compost heap today I found a slow worm, what a
beautiful creature it is.

Lovely aren't they? What shade was its belly? Darker, copper, brown colour
or light, silvery? The darker ones are the females and the lighter ones
males (I think).

This one was a light toffee humbug sort of colour, very shiny with a
thin black line along its body. It was dark underneath, whatever sex it
was it was lovely and I will be looking out for it again

kate

"Kate Morgan" wrote
Having a tidy up on the compost heap today I found a slow worm, what a
beautiful creature it is.

Yes we had them on our old allotment site, the few of us left there used to
find them on a regular basis and one chap found 6 under a bit of corrugated
iron on his plot one day.
We wondered for some while what was killing and eating snails, next to our
compost bin, there was a big pile of shells that seemed to happen over one
winter, and I assume it must have been the large male Slow Worm that I found
when I emptied it out to use it. However, they are supposed to hibernate but
perhaps it was warm enough for him to stay active.
All we have on our new plot are Rats and Mice. :-(

--
Regards
Bob Hobden
17mls W. of London.UK

We get a lot of them round our compost bins too.

I posted a picture on our website and from the descriptions in the other
replies you have had, I think this one was female. They're very placid
creatures and I love coming across them every now and then and cannot resist
picking them up to say hello. Sorry I'm a bit strange like that.

The only other snake like animals we have found in our garden was a black
snake type thing that shot off when the rock it was under was disturbed,
thought the slow worm it was there with, stayed put and the other have been
a couple of grass snakes, one we estimated at about three to four feet in
length as it shot across the pond.

Sometimes, nature is truly amazing

Nick
www.pennix.co.uk

"Kate Morgan" wrote in message
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Having a tidy up on the compost heap today I found a slow worm, what a
beautiful creature it is.

kate

I posted a picture on our website and from the descriptions in the other
replies you have had, I think this one was female. They're very placid
creatures and I love coming across them every now and then and cannot resist
picking them up to say hello. Sorry I'm a bit strange like that.

The only other snake like animals we have found in our garden was a black
snake type thing that shot off when the rock it was under was disturbed,
thought the slow worm it was there with, stayed put and the other have been
a couple of grass snakes, one we estimated at about three to four feet in
length as it shot across the pond.

Sometimes, nature is truly amazing

It certainly is Nick, up till now I have let friends come and help
themselves to my compost/muck heap but not any more, I want to look
after the slow worms :-)

kate

On 12/8/06 16:43, in article , "Kate
Morgan" wrote:

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up till now I have let friends come and help
themselves to my compost/muck heap but not any more, I want to look
after the slow worms :-)

kate

I gave up using one altogether when I discovered that slow worms were
nesting in it. For all I know - and hope - it's still sitting there!
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
http://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/

On 12/8/06 16:43, in article , "Kate
Morgan" wrote:

snip
up till now I have let friends come and help
themselves to my compost/muck heap but not any more, I want to look
after the slow worms :-)

kate


We get lots of them in our garden. They love to hide under bits of old
carpet or cardboard. Sometimes I find 5 or 6 in one place.