Saturday, 3 June 2017

Slithering and buzzing Saturday 3rd June 2017

With what seemed a reasonable early morning forecast I carried out a full survey of the reptile refugia at Pembrey LNR.

It was exciting to discover that this morning seven of the, now, 12 survey sites had reptiles with a total count of 12 Slow Worms, 6 Common Lizards, and a single NEW Grass Snake.

I say new as this individual was about a mile away from the records of last week!, the usual home range of an individual is between 0.18 - 9.41ha, although the average is around 3.56ha, todays individual was well outside the "usual" range.

Whilst checking the refugia I found another Bee Orchid plant and confirmed the mystery leaves from yesterday as Sea Bindweed.

an unusual "top down" view of a Bee Orchid flower

Bee Orchid


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