Sloworms in me garden

[snorky]

Makea a change from finding freshly laid fox eggs

[snorky]

abnyone else got sloworns on their land in the "manor" of Ed ? fantastic - blew me away when I found them(tu)

[mockney piers]

Have you really got them? Cool, I'll keep an eye out. Apparently the area is als known* for it's stag beetles.

*in the sort of circles that know about these things.

[georgina]

Can you eat them?

*hee hee*

[Nero]

I saw one stag beetle in the summer. It was rather large, but I was not afraid. Nero

[Thequietone]

Sloworms are a protected species. Possibly not allowed to handle, really !.

One place I worked redeveloped a site which had sloweorms and we had to get a team of naturalists in to capture and transport to another site.

They eat slugs so ask your gardening friends for their spares and get them breeding.

Paul

[ChavWivaLawDegree]

I wouldn't know a sloworm if I fell over it

[mockney piers]

Not a worm at all, more like a very cute snake (but actually a lizard as pointed out below..and in wikipedia link to be fair)

 

[peckhamboy]

Or even a legless lizard...

[snorky]

Def. got them - 2 at in the past couple fo weeks- sunning themselves on teh path - the snorklets love them. I did pick them up though, which I know you shouldnt - one looked like it had been attacked by a cat, as it had a big split 2/3 of the way along its body - later I realised it was shedding its tail to escape from me (tu)

Thye are a lovely golden brown colour and have a forked tongue that flicks out deliciously

Stags are great -we have them as well - when they fly , its like one of those blackhwak helicopter things, both in size and sound - scarey when you see one for the first time bumbling towards you.

alos in garden - At least one common lizard, a world of newts, what seems like a carpet of toads some evenings, robisn, fockin parakeets (6), wrens.

oh, yes and piles of bloody syringes from the hordes of skagheads that area flooding into ED, in a concerted effort to destry our childrens lives ( joke )