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    Garden Visitor ID help needed please

    Hi All was surveying the lands...ok walking around the beds.. and saw this little visitor about 1 ft long....

    Would appreciate help identifying please.

    I Picked it up and moved to a safer part of the garden away from chooks and cats, so it can live undisturbed.
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    Ooooh i dunno... maybe a flatworm?

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    • #3
      head simular to a snake as have kept snakes in the past but was fatter and "stubbier than what I'm used to....
      Never test the depth of the water with both feet

      The only reason people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory....

      Always remember you're unique, just like everyone else.

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      • #4
        I think it's a slow worm.

        http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/wildfact...iles/281.shtml
        Last edited by Seahorse; 12-04-2009, 09:30 AM. Reason: to add link
        I was feeling part of the scenery
        I walked right out of the machinery
        My heart going boom boom boom
        "Hey" he said "Grab your things
        I've come to take you home."

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        • #5
          Definitely a slow worm. How lucky are you! I haven't seen one in years.
          Mark

          Vegetable Kingdom blog

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          • #6
            Wow thanks all we had one living in our compaost bin last year and was loathe to disturb. they eat slugs!! Yippee!!!!! thanks all
            Never test the depth of the water with both feet

            The only reason people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory....

            Always remember you're unique, just like everyone else.

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            • #7
              Definitely a slow worm. We get lots, mainly in the dining room, courtesy of the cat! Very glad to hear they eat slugs!
              WPC F Hobbit, Shire police

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              • #8
                only a slow worm - i'm waiting for the adders......now we've cleared the plot i might not get any but we used to have them all over the garden , mating...............
                http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...gs/jardiniere/

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                • #9
                  deffo slow worm, aint it lovely? what u going to call it? lol
                  Dont worry about tomorrow, live for today

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                  • #10
                    Yep, ditto to slow worm
                    AKA Angie

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                    • #11
                      They're protected they are... came across millions my previous job, many a development was delayed because the slow worms had to be environmentally translocated before work could start on the ground.
                      pjh75

                      We sow the seed, nature grows the seed, we eat the seed. (Neil, The Young Ones)

                      http://producebypaula.blogspot.com/

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                      • #12
                        yup its a slow worm so congrats. Apparantly they only set up home in really fertile gardens so most gardeners look at them as a really good sign.

                        I think you should name him. How about George??
                        Serene she stand amid the flowers,
                        And only count lifes sunny hours,
                        For her dull days do not exist,
                        Evermore the optimist

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Victoria26 View Post
                          yup its a slow worm so congrats. Apparantly they only set up home in really fertile gardens so most gardeners look at them as a really good sign.

                          I think you should name him. How about George??
                          No what about Hisser?
                          The river Trent is lovely, I know because I have walked on it for 18 years.
                          Brian Clough

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                          • #14
                            When I said 'flat worm' I meant 'slow worm' just call me Nellie Pledge (showing my age now, who remembers her?). I think Sylvia the Slow worm is a good name.

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                            • #15
                              Definitely a slow worm, we get loads round here. The kids are always bringing them home and being told to put them back where they found them!

                              Middle stepson found a grass snake last week.
                              Kirsty b xx

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