Recording

Tue - February 12, 2008

First 2008 Adder Record from Kent?

Kent has had a few spring like days recently. I was up on the downs at Trosley in the middle of last week with Bill Whitaker and Diasy Truckle and was getting positively hot in the bright sunshine, but despite it being a good reptile site we found nothing. Anyhow, we did at least arrange the refuges for this year’s monitoring. Daisy will be including reptiles when she does her butterfly survey.

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Mon - October 22, 2007

Wall Lizards in Britain

For those of you interested in this year's discovery of wall lizards at Folkestone, you may be interested to visit a web site dedicated to recording other occurrences of these colourful lizards.

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Sun - October 14, 2007

Unusual Lizards at Folkestone Warren

There have been reports of 'unusually marked lizards' from the area around Folkestone for several years now. In May 2007, Julian Russell and Nigel Jarman discovered the truth...

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Thu - March 15, 2007

Riverside Country Park

Martin Hendy and his daughter Sophie visited Riverside Country Park on Sunday (11/3/07) to photograph adders at one of KRAG's monitoring sites.

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Tue - March 13, 2007

More Records for 2007

Hot on the heels of my post regarding early records, Kevin Johnson has sent me his observations together with some excellent photos.

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Sun - March 11, 2007

First Records for 2007

Well it's already March and other than the adder seen at Kingswood I have yet to detail this year's early records.

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Wed - March 7, 2007

The National Amphbian and Reptile Recording Scheme

The National Amphibian and Reptile Recording Scheme (NARRS) is a volunteer survey, targeting the nationally widespread amphibians (great crested newt, smooth newt, palmate newt, common toad and common frog) and reptiles (viviparous lizard, slow-worm, grass snake and adder). The purpose of the survey is to provide robust assessments of the conservation status of each species. To do this, NARRS need to survey a representative sample of sites across the UK in a systematic and repeatable way. By repeating the survey over time, NARRS aim to monitor trends in the status of our widespread herpetofauna

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Mon - March 5, 2007

The Churchill Newts...

Over the past couple of years I have been inspiring my neighbour to look out for amphibians in his pond and surrounding garden...

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Sat - August 26, 2006

Can I Have Some Chips with That!

Rick's recent episode with the boa constrictor illustrates one of the more unusual records that we sometimes receive at KRAG HQ. Last year we had a giant lizard turn up in Sevenoaks that was later identified as a White-throated monitor!

Even the more typical Kent species can still present a few surprises.

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What You See is What You Get!

Various requests for help arrive in the KRAG Secretary’s email box. Most of them have to do with garden ponds. Increasingly people are using their digital cameras to record what they see and use this to illustrate their questions.

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Fri - March 24, 2006

Frogs Getting Busy!

The sudden change to real spring like weather has resulted in lots of activity from my garden frogs.

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Mon - March 20, 2006

First Kent Adder of 2006

Although adders have been out and about in other parts of the country since the middle of February, survey work for early emergence in Kent has proved frustratingly futile.

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