Juvenile Grass Snake.

Steve PickfordSteve Pickford Registered Users Posts: 36 Big grins
edited October 8, 2005 in Wildlife
Just wheeling my 1150GS out of the garage & came very close to running this little guy over, only just managed to stop in time. Placed a 50p coin there for size comparison, he's about 6" long at most. Only the second Grass Snake I've ever seen:

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Too small to eat, so I released him in to the longer grass in the back garden where he can chase Spiders & Froglets.

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  • GraphyFotozGraphyFotoz Registered Users Posts: 2,267 Major grins
    edited October 8, 2005
    Don't wanna rain on your parade
    CORRECTED IN POST BELOW!:hide
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  • DaniDani Registered Users Posts: 807 Major grins
    edited October 8, 2005
    GraphyFotoz wrote:
    But......
    That's not a Grass Snake dude.

    It's a Ring-Necked Snake (Diadophis punctatus)


    Grass Snake is solid green.
    Get a chance look it up in a field guide.
    NOT being a know it all just know my wildlife pretty good after 30yrs. :D
    actually it IS a grass snake.... Steve is correct. Probably Natrix natrix helvetica

    I'm pretty sure the Prarie ring-neck (Diadophis punctatus) is not found 'across the pond'!!!

    I did a bit of searching and found this on the BBC's science and nature site
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/wildfacts/factfiles/278.shtml

    and a photo

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  • PossumCornerPossumCorner Registered Users Posts: 290 Major grins
    edited October 8, 2005
    Too small to eat ....
    I liked the nutrition notes under the container. Thanks for letting him/her free, most Australians would never release a snake alive - old ideas are becoming more enlightened, but slowly slowly. If the little grass snake/ring-neck snake were here, with more rings, he would be a Bandy-bandy and quite toxic. (Maybe that one wants to be a bandy-bandy when it grows up).
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  • GraphyFotozGraphyFotoz Registered Users Posts: 2,267 Major grins
    edited October 8, 2005
    MY APOLOGIES!! I'm wrong
    Dani wrote:
    actually it IS a grass snake.... Steve is correct. Probably Natrix natrix helvetica

    I'm pretty sure the Prarie ring-neck (Diadophis punctatus) is not found 'across the pond'!!!

    I did a bit of searching and found this on the BBC's science and nature site
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/wildfacts/factfiles/278.shtml

    and a photo
    Just :hang me!
    I found these Googling

    Solid Green snake is just what it is....a Smooth or Rough GREEN Snake!
    I now note the incomplete neck band and body markings! :bash

    Grass Snake
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    Northern Ring Necked Snake
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  • Steve PickfordSteve Pickford Registered Users Posts: 36 Big grins
    edited October 8, 2005
    Only six reptiles found in the UK:

    Three types of lizard including the Slow Worm, a legless variety.

    Three types of snake: Grass Snake, Smooth Snake & the Adder, the only poisonous variety.

    The one I saw was probably only 2 months old max & should be going in to hibernation any day now.
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