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New-t-est form of pest control in garden

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  • 08-04-2011 7:10pm
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    Zuiderzee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 593 ✭✭✭


    The last day when I was blogging about drainage, I touched on making the garden more attractive to frogs.

    Today, Josephina turned up with a newt or lizard (not sure, sent the photos away for ID) but thats really good news for me icon_biggrin.gif . From my initial reading it appears this is probably a male newt
    liz2_591.jpg
    Poor wee bugger had lost it's tail and part of a leg thanks to the attention of my fierce little feline friend, but otherwise seemed in good nick.
    liz9_122.jpg
    For now I moved it to an enclosed drain which has water and mud - and provided shelter.

    My plan is - subject to advice - is to put dry catfood in under the shelter on a dry spot. This will attract slugs to the drain, and provide food for my retained reptile.
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    With only 3 legs and a tail (which will grow back) I recon the only name for said reptile is Lucky.


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    Alun
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    I reckon that's a Viviparous Lizard. See my post here http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=56697818 for some photos of one I found up in the Wicklow Mts one day. The markings and the colour of it's belly match up well.


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    Zuiderzee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 593 ✭✭✭Zuiderzee


    Many thanks for that Alun, nice to know what I'm dealing with.
    Set up the shelter and habitat for it in a drain, so I hope it will recover, and when it does it might hang around.
    Josephina does not wander far, so it must be from the locale


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