MAMMALS, REPTILES & AMPHIBIAN GC Survey

I thought they looked as if they had longer antennae than that Nutty ?!

 

Had an excellent walk around Stover Country Park Nature Reserve, Newton Abbot, Devon on Easter Sunday and here are a few things not daunted by lots of noisy children on their bank holidays!


I think this is a Brimstone Butterfly - outer surface of wings very yellow.



Common Toad - it pays to stop a while - walking around I needed a rest so I parked myself on a bench by a small pond which looked devoid of all animal life. Then I heard a rustling of leaves and this fella walks right past me!



Grey squirrels living off the bird seed falling from the feeders above.



Lots of small fish - not sure what type but certainly providing lots of lunches for the Grebes and Herons.

 

Yesterday at Stover Country Park.

 

Hi Ben - does this include slow worms too? I hope not - I used to have to hold them to rescue them from the cat!!! :o

 

Thought I would take some night shots of the reptiles guarding my garden.

common frog



common newt.



common frog

 

Reptiles Walnut??? :D:flag:

 

Couldn't spell" hamfibiuns" Strongy:D

 

Strongy couldn't resist looking this up,
History of classification


Reptiles are a paraphyletic group. If birds were included would it be monophyletic.


The reptiles were from the outset of classification grouped with the amphibians. Linnaeus working from species poor Sweden where the common adder and grass Snake are often found hunting in water, included all reptiles and amphibians in class "III - Amphibia" in his Systema Naturae.[1] The terms "reptile" and "amphibian" were largely interchangeable, "reptiles" being preferred by the French.It was only at the turn of the century they were classed seperately and me being very old tend to get confuddled

 

.It was only at the turn of the century they were classed seperately and me being very old tend to get confuddled
So you've been mixing them up since the turn of the century then!:D

I stand corrected, I will have to double check my posts in future.:D:D

 

YES :D

 

Wonderful photos Nutty - the 'green slimy things' will do in my classification technicalities!

 

I was chuffed to bits when I lifted the soggy cardboard on the compost heap this week and found the lodger.
Last year we had two in the polytunnel - they lived in a crack in the soil, but seemed to disappear over winter.
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Great photo Dave you have a good gardening friend there,:thumb:

 

Plenty of these little fellas around the garden.