carn't understand this one
 

I was outside this morning and found a hatchling hermanns about 6 months old sitting on the path sunning itself , problem is i've never seen it before ,i have no idea where it came from , the only thing i can think is one of my adults laid outside , but it's been to cold to incubate eggs outside .

:shock: Oh my :D Wish I could find a surprise like that in my garden ;)

Just checked my garden, no hatchlings.
Lifes just not fair sometimes!!

Ha ha so lucky Chris that's amazing :-)

interesting Chris - question is if that is the case how many more are there?

thats what i'm wondering

That is amazing :-D
I would now be on my hands and knees looking for disturbed soil, wouldn't it be wonderful if their was a clutch of eggs out there.
I think you should call it Bronson from the great escape lol

I have had dreams about that happening to me.... what an amazing thing!

or Bear - born survivor ;)

would love to see pics of the little one. what a great surprise!

hi chris

Surely temps are to low for natural incubation, unless you have a green house or cloche she may have nested in.

It would also be a long incubation time aswell, in the low average temps. i have heard of it before in a greenhouse,

cool find though, and yes if theres one , how many more, perhaps the baby hatched underground and went straight into hibernation before coming out in spring summer.