Grass Snake

ponkle | 15:57 Mon 15th Jun 2020 | Animals & Nature

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Just found a lovely grass snake in the garden.

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bookbinder

What did you do with it?

10ClarionSt

I found a snake in the pool, last time we went to Florida. Nothing nice about it though. It was a Coral Snake. Not a big one but scary enough!

ponkle

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Relocated it in the long grass on the side of beck at the bottom of my garden

Mamyalynne

Nice find, a bonny creature.

bookbinder

Did you take any photos? It would be a nice experience to look back on.

retrocop

When I were a little lad my mates and I frequently played on the railway embankment alongside our estate. The area swarmed or slithered with them. One day a very alarmed compadre let out a shriek and screamed Anaconda. Eat your heart out Mr Bolt. Us kids hurdled 6' chain link fences and ran 500mts when you were still on the starting blocks. :-)

Chipchopper

I used to see them, mostly along the trails through the bracken woods, warming up in the morning sun.
Occasionally I would spot one among the grass on the edge of the woods, usually they would scurry away pretty quick on the approach of a human but on the grass they were much slower and couldn't get the traction they needed to get away.
Why they're are called grass snakes, I don't know, maybe the clour ?
Often found in garden compost heaps, excellent for incubating their eggs.

Arrods

Have had a couple of large grass snakes in and around my pond. Some while back, a smaller one got trapped in netting covering the pond. Cut around most of the netting and took it into the nearby vets as I wasn’t sure it was a grass snake. They freed it from the netting and I then relocated it back to the pond.

Chipchopper

I think, the most distinctive feature of the grass snake, are the yellow patches behind the head.

iluvmargie

Never, ever seen a grass snake, but would love to. I thought they were quite rare.