Common Lizard

The smallest of our three lizards and as by the name also the most commonly found, their markings can vary a lot and so can the range of habitats. I remember as a kid living in the middle of a town we had common lizards and slow worms in the garden. Due to ever expanding towns and population increase you'll be lucky to find these in an urban environment now, but not unheard off !

 

Common lizards also give birth to live young in late summer and share many of the same habitats as the Slow worm.

 

This year one of the things I wanted to see was all types of lizard found in the UK, native and introduced Lizard. Over the last few days I managed to see the rarest and last one to spot......the sand lizards.

The native ones are the Slow worm, Common Lizard, and rare Sand Lizard, introduced are Wall and the Green Lizard.

Sand, Wall, and Green are all only found in a small number locations in the UK but all three can be found in Dorset.

 

Hopefully you can take a look at all of today's update and see all the different types.

Done