On 24 Sep, 17:59, "Christina Websell"
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"harry" wrote in message

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On 22 Sep, 17:11, "Christina Websell"
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"harry" wrote in message

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On 19 Sep, 23:38, harry wrote:

We have grass
snakes!http://www.flickr.com/photos/ara-chloroptera/?saved=1
Escaped from heated propagator and captured making a break for it
across our living room floor!
I will release them tomorrow when it's warmed up a bit.

Update .
All the eggs have hatched. We had twenty one in total.
Surprisingly there were no failed to hatch ones.
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What a great thing you've done, harry, after accidentally disturbing the
clutch.
Congratulations!

Tina

The local environment man from the council came today. I had
previously
spoken to him on the telephone. *Left some leaflets about
constructing places for snakes to hibernate and lay eggs. I might
have a go at this. *Quite a bit of work though.

I'd be interested to know about that, if it's within my physical
capabilities I'd like to give it a try. *AFAIK, although I have two compost
heaps, there have never been any grass snakes or slow worms in them. *I say
AFAIK as they are way down the the garden and if the snakes are not out and
about at the weekends I'm unlikely to see them.

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We only rarely see our snakes but usually in the pond. I have never
seen the big (female?), my wife saw it just once.
Basically the egg place consists of a layer of logs topped off with
compost, straw, wood chippings or similar. About 2m circle.
The hibernation place consists of a hole in well drained ground with
stone chippings in the bottom. There is a layer of logs topped off
with brash and compost . The earth and turf is put on top of this
leaving a heap.
Hah. I'm ranting on. Just found it here on the net. To the bottom of
this page here is the drawings.
http://www.herefordhart.org/download...Management.pdf