{"id":700,"date":"2012-08-01T21:08:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T21:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/?p=700"},"modified":"2020-04-04T16:30:45","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T16:30:45","slug":"the-dorset-six","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/?p=700","title":{"rendered":"The Dorset Six"},"content":{"rendered":"

A quick recap of this year\u2019s hunt to see all our native reptiles whilst waiting for my arm to heal (using binoculars and cameras whilst suffering from a broken arm isn\u2019t advisable.)<\/p>\n

The Lizards<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\"Sand<\/a>Sand Lizard (male) at Higher Hyde Heath<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"Sand<\/a>Sand Lizard (male) at Higher Hyde Heath<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"Sand<\/a>Sand Lizard (female) at Higher Hyde Heath<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"CommonCommon Lizard at Higher Hyde Heath<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"Slow<\/a>Slow Worm (or Legless Lizard) at Arne<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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The Snakes<\/span><\/p>\n

\"AdderAdder, Langton Matravers<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\"A<\/a>Grass Snake discovered whilst on a reptile ramble at Arne (RSPB)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"Young<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\"Young<\/a>A young Smooth Snake again discovered on a reptile ramble at Arne.<\/p>\n

Unless you\u2019re extremely lucky the chances of finding a Smooth Snake entwined in some heather whilst walking across the Dorset Heaths is about the same as winning the lottery.\u00a0 Fortunately the RSPB have around 50 corrugated steel sheets lying around. These heat up in the early morning sunshine and attract the Smooth Snakes.<\/p>\n

The other 5 reptiles can be found relatively easily, assuming you\u2019re patient and know where to look – likewise the introduced Wall Lizard. Although human deaths from Adder bites are rare it\u2019s probably wise not to get too close. Likewise allowing Muttley to stick his nose into the vegetation growing alongside paths isn\u2019t clever.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A quick recap of this year\u2019s hunt to see all our native reptiles whilst waiting for my arm to heal (using binoculars and cameras whilst suffering from a broken arm isn\u2019t advisable.) The Lizards Sand Lizard (male) at Higher Hyde Heath Sand Lizard (male) at Read More …<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[156,63,206,95,205,207,204],"class_list":["post-700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reptiles","tag-adder","tag-common-lizard","tag-grass-snake","tag-sand-lizard","tag-slow-worm","tag-smooth-snake","tag-the-dorset-six"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=700"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6407,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions\/6407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalbornblogger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}