Slow Worm

[Stewart J]

Out walking near banks of South Tyne near Slaggyford in SW Northumberland and was privileged to spot a small female slow worm crossing the road, quickly picked it up and relocated it on grass verge my good deed for the day. It was a small female (sexed by it’s black belly) it was exquisite like a piece of living gold jewellery made my day. For those wondering a Slow Worm is not a snake but a legless lizard.

 

[CWH]

Gosh she is just beautiful!

 

[alex n]

Never seen one of those before

 

[Dan and Jan]

Great pics. Used to see loads in Kent in the 70s. Never seen any in Scotland, maybe to cold?

 

[The Wino]

Out walking near banks of South Tyne near Slaggyford in SW Northumberland and was privileged to spot a small female slow worm crossing the road, quickly picked it up and relocated it on grass verge my good deed for the day. It was a small female (sexed by it’s black belly) it was exquisite like a piece of living gold jewellery made my day. For those wondering a Slow Worm is not a snake but a legless lizard.View attachment 401259View attachment 401260View attachment 401261View attachment 401262View attachment 401263

Found one in our garden recently and saw another on the road just after there must be quite a few around here.

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[DBK]

They are magical creatures.

 

[Lenny HB]

Thats a very small one must be a baby. We sometimes get them in our compost heap.

 

[Stewart J]

Thats a very small one must be a baby. We sometimes get them in our compost heap.

Our neighbours cat keeps bringing them into her house Lenny, 9 so far this lockdown, all had shed their tales (defensive mechanism) 2 unfortunately were killed they live in her large compost heap. Photo of one from couple of weeks ago minus tail.

 

[Silver-Fox]

As kids we used to go down the old railway line and catch these and sand lizards.

Then put them back and the day was done.

How we never got tagged by an Adder I’ll never know.

We used to collect Mercury from the old signallers hut from the gauges as well

Collect that in the glass tubes propelling pencil “lead” used to come in with a rubber stopper

Ohh we used to live on the edge

 

[The Wino]

As kids we used to go down the old railway line and catch these and sand lizards.

Then put them back and the day was done.

How we never got tagged by an Adder I’ll never know.

We used to collect Mercury from the old signallers hut from the gauges as well

Collect that in the glass tubes propelling pencil “lead” used to come in with a rubber stopper

Ohh we used to live on the edge

We used to play with mercury on the physics bench at school you could roll it together into a ball then when you whacked it little bits rolled out all over the bench. I think they would now probably quite rightly do a deep clean

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[Shrimp]

They don’t grow very big, I would say that was an adult!
They are in fact a ‘legless Lizard’......too much alcohol I suspect!!!

 

[dryad]

They don’t grow very big, I would say that was an adult!
They are in fact a ‘legless Lizard’......too much alcohol I suspect!!!

unless Stewart J has ENORMOUS hands, that is a baby, adult size is generally around half a metre, couple of feet..

have them here at home in the garden, helpful for the gardener..

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[Nanniemate]

2 good deeds first the rescue then sharing it thank you

 

[LesW]

Lovely looking little creature, Mrs W said it looks like jewellery..

 

[34127]

Slaggyford - a great place to walk. Also good for fly fishing - when there is some water in the river, just about bone dry at the moment.

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[autorouter]

We used to play with mercury on the physics bench at school you could roll it together into a ball then when you whacked it little bits rolled out all over the bench. I think they would now probably quite rightly do a deep clean

They'd dust the whole place with sulphur powder. The mercury goes into cracks and crevices, and gives off low level mercury vapour for decades. The sulphur powder reacts with it and stops the vapour production.

 

[The Coops]

We used to play with mercury on the physics bench at school you could roll it together into a ball then when you whacked it little bits rolled out all over the bench. I think they would now probably quite rightly do a deep clean

we used to make fulminate of mercury as a side line ( paint it on the floor and let it dry and when it is stepped on it exploded with a loud bang and I bet we even used asbestos pads to dry it out!)

 

[steve 6644]

Our neighbours cat keeps bringing them into her house Lenny, 9 so far this lockdown, all had shed their tales (defensive mechanism) 2 unfortunately were killed they live in her large compost heap. Photo of one from couple of weeks ago minus tail.View attachment 401270

No comment.

 

[Minxy]

Our neighbours cat keeps bringing them into her house Lenny, 9 so far this lockdown, all had shed their tales (defensive mechanism) 2 unfortunately were killed they live in her large compost heap. Photo of one from couple of weeks ago minus tail.View attachment 401270

I assume the cats aren't actually digging them out of the compost heap?

 

[Mountain man]

Great pics. Used to see loads in Kent in the 70s. Never seen any in Scotland, maybe to cold?

Lots in the Highlands of Scotland and Adders

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