Kay wrote:
:: In article , Phil
:: L writes
::: Sally Thompson wrote:
::::: Saw our first grass snake of the year today up near our stream.
::::: Hadn't seen one since the year we were building, despite the
::::: helpful piles of dried grass around with "vacant" signs.
::::: Fabulous! You can't beat it. I have been amazed at the fact
::::: that some people have never seen such things in the wild - we
::::: even had some people staying who had never seen real frog spawn
::::: - only on television. Sad, isn't it. We feel very blessed.
::::: It must finally be getting warmer...
:::
::: I stumbled upon an adder when I was a kid...walking along some
::: seatop cliffs in N Wales, young me finds a 'rabbit' hole and
::: peers down it, an adder (about 4ft 6 long and two inches thick!)
::: shot from behind me, between my open legs and down the
::: hole....this is the only wild snake I've ever seen in the UK.
:::
:: That's too large for an adder! Or is it just that adders, like
:: everything else, shrink when you're a grown-up ;-)

It was big to me...or maybe I was smaller? - that's probably more likely!
After a brief google, it was an adder and a female one at that, mostly sandy
beige with a zigzag effect.....I remember my dad saying at the time, "stop
panicking, it's more frightened of you, than you are of it" and me thinking,
"not bloody likely".


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