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Apologies, I do get a little preoccupied at this time of year….. I am trying to find Aggie – my favourite snake, who was still out on December 12th, but as yet I have not found her…… She may have perished or, hopefully, she has found somewhere else to see in the spring.

So mild has this winter been that I worry for many of our hibernating fauna. The temperature may not have been cold enough for long enough to properly let the hibernators go into limbo and yet they would not have found the food to sustain their metabolism. The snakes have been showing for some weeks.Continue reading “Early season snakes”

April 29th 2013 I found three little grass snake hatchlings last autumn and did wonder if the long, cold winter would have been a bit too severe for them. Thankfully, at least one is okay…… No bigger than a worm but a thousand times as cute….

24th April 2013 And the grass snakes have finally emerged, too! They are cold at this time of year and docile as a result. Grass snakes are not found much further north than Hadrian’s Wall and after the cold of the past winter and early spring they have hibernated a full month longer here thanContinue reading “Grassies!”

19th April 2013 A perfect day for adders with a northerly wind keeping the air temperature in check but warm intermittent sunshine keeping the snakes out basking. I popped to my local patch for a quick poke about and found this male in his usual spot. I have seen a juvenile adder near to thisContinue reading “Adders…….”