Another WOW!!! I have found happy groups of them in the compost bins but never more than about a dozen. That is a spectacular collection. I wonder what the collective name is for a group of slow worms?
Another WOW!!! I have found happy groups of them in the compost bins but never more than about a dozen. That is a spectacular collection. I wonder what the collective name is for a group of slow worms?
I love a good collective noun..I really hoped it would be a wriggle of worms.
Oh I wish we still had them here in South Essex as the last time I saw one would have been 1983 and it gladdened my heart to see it after learning to love them during a 2 year stay in Bristol at the end of the 70's , my landlords garden which I had full access to was alive with them and if you lifted any of the many flat rocks the garden contained you'd most likely find a dozen or 2 , I miss those days when there was still just a little left of how things had once been .
Another WOW!!! I have found happy groups of them in the compost bins but never more than about a dozen. That is a spectacular collection. I wonder what the collective name is for a group of slow worms?
I love a good collective noun..I really hoped it would be a wriggle of worms.
The collective noun for slow worms is 'lounge'.
A lounge of Slow worms.
“Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.” - Bernard Cornwell-Death of Kings
Wow! Superb picture.. never seen such a big group. I had slow worms in my garden in my old house but since I moved, just 10 miles away, I haven't seen a single one yet. They're great for the garden, love eating slugs. I've read that pet cats are partly responsible for their declining numbers.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
A lounge of Slow worms.