KRAG teamed up with Kent High Weald Partnership to deliver a reptile workshop at Matfield Village Hall and Cinderhill Woods on Saturday, 6th June.  An indoor session covering reptile ecology and survey techniques were followed by a site visit to Cinderhill Woods in an area of restored heathland.  The weather was kind to us and late afternoon afforded some excellent opportunities to search for reptiles.  Numerous viviparous lizards were found openly basking in the excellent habitat that heather provides as well as several slow worm and a grass snake (as well as a nearby shed grass snake skin). 

KRAG would like to thank both Kent High Weald Partnership and all the volunteers who attended the workshop for giving us a great day.  We look forward to records of reptiles from newly established survey sites to start rolling in and helping to make KRAG's herpetofauna database as up to date and comprehensive as it is possible to be.

Feedback from the workshop: "Thank you... for an excellent reptile training day on Saturday" and "Thank you very much for another well-organised, totally interesting and enjoyable KRAG event - the Bough Beech volunteers who came too were well enthused!