Guess what? My parish has more native species of amphibians and reptiles than yours.
Sometimes when I take the dog out I pass this little statue of a toad, but I hadn’t actually stopped to look at it properly until the other day. It turns out that it relates an important fact about my local area that I didn’t know until now.
The plaque underneath says this.
Whitehill is the only parish in the UK to claim home to all 12 of our native amphibians and reptiles, including this, the rare Natterjack toad. Only 7cm long with a distinctive yellow stripe down its back, it favours sand and heathland and breeds in shallow pools. It eats insects, worms and small reptiles and can live up to an amazing 15 years.
Twelve. Twelve native species of amphibians and reptiles. Your parish certainly has some of them, it might even have quite a lot of them. But it won’t have all twelve. I don’t know why amphibians and reptiles are measured by the parish, which seems an odd choice of geographic area to use for this, but that doesn’t matter.
What matters is this.
My parish has more native species of amphibians and reptiles than yours.
In your face, sucker.
4 comments on “Amphibian/reptile brag”
Amphib-a-brag?
Exactly. I expect this is the only thing you’ve said because you’re absolutely reeling from my amphibian/reptile news.
I still haven’t… haven’t properly caught my breath you know. It’s too much for one person, surely you have to see that?
I can see that, but I’ve got no time to sympathise because I’m too busy dealing with all the amphibians and reptiles that are native to my parish. It’s just non stop round here mate.