Snake (!!)

[Pinkie15]

Any one good at snake id ?

Not a great photo as it had crawled under logs by the time I could get a photo, missus reckoned it was 0.7 to a metre long.

We're in N Herts near Stevenage

[Petrus1983]

Looks like a grass snake.

[LordGrover]

British snakes

[Sheets Tabuer]

Trouser.

Google it.

[Petrus1983]

LordGrover said:

British snakes

That’s what I used - I don’t know anything about snakes

[Pinkie15]

And another one:



Thanks for the suggestions, definitely grass snake

[Petrus1983]

Pinkie15 said:

And another one:



Thanks for the suggestions, definitely grass snake

What a great spot!

[BoggoStump]

wonder if it would survive as a pet snake

[Boosted LS1]

Probably not and it would be unkind imo.

[7mike]

Boosted LS1 said:

Probably not and it would be unkind imo.

and illegal

[Doofus]

If you kept it in the garden, I doubt you'd be prosecuted.

[Equus]

7mike said:

Boosted LS1 said:

Probably not and it would be unkind imo.

and illegal

Actually it's not: it is illegal to trade or sell them, but not to keep them (even if you take them from the wild).

They are, however regarded as quite a difficult species to keep in captivity

[otolith]

I’ve often seen grass snakes swimming, rarely on land. I suspect they're pretty good at vanishing when they hear our elephant feet approaching. At my old house I often found slow worms in the garden (legless lizards, not snakes), I think they used to breed in my compost heap. Occasionally found the cats eating a shed tail, and once sadly ran one over with the lawn mower, but they were generally pretty good at keeping out of the way of trouble.

[theplayingmantis]

Mowed over an adder (unknowingly) when cutting some grass for silage around our storage yard once! only time ive seen one...well bits of one.

Plenty of grass snakes in garden over the years - often breed in compost heaps and seen in neighbours pond eating the fish!

[Pinkie15]

otolith said:

I’ve often seen grass snakes swimming, rarely on land.

Funny that cos one of these 2, or maybe it was a 3rd one, was chasing a toad around one of our ponds on Sunday morning. I didn't realise the snake could/would completely immerse itself, for quite some time, too.

Missus rescued the toad (at least from imminent danger)