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Massive grass snake

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  • bekkie hughesbekkie hughes Posts: 5,294
    My OH is frightened of ANYTHING that lives in the sea! And spiders. He is a 6'4, 23st body builder! Just shows, you cant judge a book and all that! image
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190

    OOOH! Bekkie, he wouldn't want to come here and dig my pond would he image

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • bekkie hughesbekkie hughes Posts: 5,294
    Waste of time Lyn, i do ALL of the digging, i honestly think he is purely ornamental! Plus, it would be cheaper to pay someone than feed him for a day! image
  • jayne 1jayne 1 Posts: 37

    I get a lot of gifts from my cat which I thought were snakes. But later found out they are slow worms. They move pretty quick for something called slow worms image 

  • artjakartjak Posts: 4,167

    My Jack Russell caught and killed a shrew/vole type creature this a.m. as we were out on a walk. I am praying she does not catch sight of the snake as she would probably go for it.image

  • Dave MorganDave Morgan Posts: 3,123

    Grass snakes like Adders are relatively harmless and are more frightened of us than we are of them. Being as they are relatively rare nowadays, it's a an honour to have them in your garden. Your'e obviously doing something right for the wildlife. 

  • artjakartjak Posts: 4,167

    Thank you Daveimage

  • artjakartjak Posts: 4,167

    On the wild life theme; this morning whilst walking small mutt (we went on a mammoth 2 hour walk) I was looking at a wheat field and saw some tiny antlers; it was a Muntjack. We looked at each other for about 30 seconds, he moved his head, I moved mine, he then leapt off flying gracefully over the wheat to the far side of the field. Just beautiful. I will have to take the camera out in futureimage

  • artjakartjak Posts: 4,167

    Sadly, Flossie Flo is too short to see a little brown face appearing above the wheat. image Next time I will lift her up to see.image

  • bekkie hughesbekkie hughes Posts: 5,294
    Gosh artjack, where you live sounds amazing, lucky lady (you are a lady???) image
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