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Unfortunately, we don't get too many reptiles in the Great White North, so we have to jet-off to Mexico in the winter to get our fill.  Took these in Puerto Vallarta a few years ago.  Pretty handsome "dragons" (Iguana iguana - the common green iguana).  Okay, just common, but exotic to us Northerners.  I also saw a spiny-tailed (black) iguana but didn't get a good picture (I believe these are all green iguana).  Amazing how quite different they look.  Now, bucket list, a marine iguana in the Galapagos!!

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we have just spent the weekend in the Forest of Dean and saw non reptiles Fallow Deer peregrinne  and a first a family of wild boar, but in a rare moment of sunshine at a place called New Fancy, there is a path with a bank above it and we saw 2 common lizards basking

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and then, about a metre above them, a female adder came into view! it was also searching for a basking spot and we stayed very still and watched it for about 20 minutes before the sun went in and it went back into the undergrowth. such a beautiful snake

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Thanks @TonyQ we knew the area was a place that adders could be seen, but of course it was just luck when the sun came out and the adder came to bask! the main thing w as that we did not alter its behaviour

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The local grass snakes are active at Summer leys, our local wildlife trust reserve, but (selfishly) the word has got out and there are about 5 photographers to every snake!  So a trip today to another Trust reserve glapthorn, meant we had  about 5 common lizards, and a stoat, all to ourselves. Not quick enough for the stoat

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for those old enough to remember ray Harryhausen special efects i think this common lizard has been auditioning

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and for the first time in a while, again from nagshead, this magnificent Slow Worm- the longest we have ever seen I think from the colour its a male

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