Today...

[Infidel Castro]

...I found a baby Slow Worm crossing the road in my street. The poor bugger must be very confused. Anyway, I put the wee feller in my back-garden. Next month I expect a whole new eco-system. But isn\'t it still too cold? Push comes to shove, I may yet end up with a 10ft python (in the garden, not my pants...). Either which way, these legless lizards are very beautiful.

 

[lizcam]

Originally posted by reverend
...I found a baby Slow Worm crossing the road in my street. The poor bugger must be very confused. Anyway, I put the wee feller in my back-garden. Next month I expect a whole new eco-system. But isn\'t it still too cold? Push comes to shove, I may yet end up with a 10ft python (in the garden, not my pants...). Either which way, these legless lizards are very beautiful.

Um.....What\'s a slow worm?

 

[Infidel Castro]

A legless lizard it seems. A snake with no legs. i\'m still confused, but they\'re called lizards. Like some skinks maybe? ???

 

[Thunderhawker]

That:

 

[Infidel Castro]

Got it in one! Now make it the size of a worm worm and add amazing gold and black skin...

Lovely creatures.

 

[Infidel Castro]

Worm worm as opposed to Slow Worm...

 

[Undave]

Where\' Bill when you need him?

 

[Sand Rat]

I\'m waiting on it to get warm enough that these guys come back to the flood control ponds across the street from my apartment

 

[lizcam]

See, things like that here in the Mojave Desert will kill you or make you itch. Everything here either kills you or makes you itch. So the thought of picking one up and moving it makes my skin crawl. Or itch.

 

[Roger Bunting]

Here\'s some info.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/wildfacts/factfiles/281.shtml

 

[freakinacage]

my parents used to use old carpet on the u used sections of our allotment ot keep the weeds off. we used to get whole familes of slow worms and doormice living underneath them. used to love it as a sprog! lovely little fellas they are too

 

[Dragon Forge Design]

Little bugger would freeze to death here.. here I look out the window and see snow..No worms..

 

[Infidel Castro]

Have ye never heard of the legendary Snowe Wyrm?

I do love Slow Worms. They please me mightily!

Freak: I would have loved a guaranteed amount of them to play with every year. Lucky thing!

 

[airhead]

we have a legless lizard here too, also called a glass snake (don\'t know why).

What\'s a sprog? (or should I ask?)

 

[Roger Bunting]

Here\'s the wiki about glass snakes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_lizard

 

[Infidel Castro]

It appears, according to the BBC site, that mine was a baby female. A bit early as well, as they seem to come out in May/June.