This week I have made a couple of trips to see my local Adders. On Monday I was able to see three snakes basking together; one female and two males. Today there were just two males in the same place. All these snakes were pre-slough with milky eyes, although one male from today had a patch of fresh skin mid-body. I have taken these recent trips as an opportunity to use a new camera toy - Raynox dcr-250 macro attachment, which is essentially a microscope for the end of the lens. I've found it good for the small animals like insects, spiders and today also baby lizards. I've also had some success using this with Adders and a small Dice snake the other week.
Here are some photos;
n.b. I don't see the need to catch these snakes purely for photo opportunities as I visit this site on a fairly regular basis and generally prefer wild shots but, as a study I am doing at university involves identifying individuals, I am required to make a positive id of as many individuals as possible which unfortunately is not always possible in-situ.
Hope you liked the photos. I'm hoping to be able to take some more of the lizards soon