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Massive grass snake
artjak
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I was sitting on the terrace reading about 3 ish when I saw something move out of the corner of my eye; it was a snake about 1m long. I did a vertical takeoff, like a Harrier Jump Jet from shear surprise. I'm actually rather fond of snakes and once did a days work with a python wrapped round my neck I checked online and it was a grass snake, not an adder. It was very beautiful; it raised it's head to me and then slithered off into the flower bed.
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How cool is that? I'd be over the moon
In the Fens, Norfolk. I saw a much smaller one vanish into the same part of the flower bed about 5 years ago; perhaps the holes I sometimes see in the ground are not rat holes, but snake holes.
Lucky you Artjak Very Lucky you
I know grass snakes have been seen around here but we've not seen one in our garden - yet.
When I had the smallholding we had grass snakes in the meadows and swimming in the ponds catching Gt Crested Newts.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Do they eat snails and slugs?
Think the younger ones eat slugs, but the bigger the snake, the bigger the prey - big ones will go for frogs, small mammals and birds - keep an eye on those baby robins!!!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Mine hunt in the pond but I haven't seen much of them this year. I may be jealous
In the sticks near Peterborough
Ahhh! thanks Dove; but Robins are way down the garden beyond the g/h. The bird feeders are very close to where the snake went; would they eat dropped bird seed? The birds who feed on the ground are mainly big wood pigeons, too big for a snake to tackle I would think.
They'll travel quite a way, and climb trees, to get to a bird's nest!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.