27-07-2020, 01:02 PM
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Re: Adder in my garden !
Originally Posted by paula
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OMG that would terrify me, snakes and spiders are my worst nightmare
Ghastly vile things!.
Hence the reason I could never live somewhere like Australia, where they are both in abundance.
28-07-2020, 06:58 AM
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Re: Adder in my garden !
Ok update after some study and inquiry I have decided that Mups was right and it was a grass snake .Apparently grass snakes love living in compost heaps and the wall is near to the compost heap in which something lives but I assumed it was mice .
Grass snakes eat mice .
But what clinched it for me ( I hope ) were its eyes which I saw very clearly -I was only a foot away .
They were round .
Apparently adders have slit eyes .
These were definitely round .
This is good news on the dog front !
28-07-2020, 08:57 AM
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Re: Adder in my garden !
Originally Posted by Muddy
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Ok update after some study and inquiry I have decided that Mups was right and it was a grass snake .Apparently grass snakes love living in compost heaps and the wall is near to the compost heap in which something lives but I assumed it was mice .
Grass snakes eat mice .
But what clinched it for me ( I hope ) were its eyes which I saw very clearly -I was only a foot away .
They were round .
Apparently adders have slit eyes .
These were definitely round .
This is good news on the dog front !
I think you are right about the eyes Muddy.
See here, and they do look quite different:
https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/how-i...dentify-snakes
Well done.
28-07-2020, 10:18 PM
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Re: Adder in my garden !
Muddy, I have had two grass snakes in my garden, there might be more but l have only ever seen two.One slid out from under some grass cuttings that had rotted. They like the heat of those.
The other was at least a metre long and was tangled up in the netting protecting my runner beans. I think it was dead but had to get a friend to remove it for me. I was too scared!
Because of the length of the snake, l thought at first that it was an Adder but when l googled it, l discovered an Adder has a distinctive ‘V’ shape on its head and this snake didn’t.
I haven’t seen one since.... Thank Goodness!
28-07-2020, 10:25 PM
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Re: Adder in my garden !
Originally Posted by Artangel
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Muddy, I have had two grass snakes in my garden, there might be more but l have only ever seen two.One slid out from under some grass cuttings that had rotted. They like the heat of those.
The other was at least a metre long and was tangled up in the fine netting protecting my runner beans. I think it was dead but had to get a friend to remove it for me. I was too scared!
Because of the length of the snake, l thought at first that it was an Adder but when l googled it, l discovered an Adder has a distinctive diamond shape on its head and this snake didn’t.
I haven’t seen one since.... Thank Goodness!
Think you'll find it's the other way round Art, and it's the Grass Snakes that are the biggest.
I think adult Adders are only about 2 & half ft, while Grass snakes are up to 5ft or a little more even.
* Good grief, just looked it up and Grass Snakes can live up to 25 years old.
I never would have thought that!
28-07-2020, 10:59 PM
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Re: Adder in my garden !
Originally Posted by Mups
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Think you'll find it's the other way round Art, and it's the Grass Snakes that are the biggest.I think adult Adders are only about 2 & half ft, while Grass snakes are up to 5ft or a little more even.
* Good grief, just looked it up and Grass Snakes can live up to 25 years old.
I never would have thought that!
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