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Out around Peaslake yesterday, we encountered a snake. Not some skinny green grass snake but a pukka blue/grey hissing man-killer.
It was about a meter long, maybe a bit more and maybe 2cm diameter, blue gray colour maybe with some markings on the head. It rose up, hissed and was happy to try and snakebite a tyre.
I took a couple of pictures but the quality is not enough (iphone) to make an id.
Question is:
what snake could this be: either local or a released pet not native?
could we have died if bitten as it makes the story better?
why are my children not impressed?
There arent too many snake types in the UK.
Never seen a green grass snake in the UK, only brown?
Check http://www.herpetofauna.co.uk/identification.htm
If it was native the worst it would have been was an adder - if you have an illness or are particularly small you might have died if you couldnt get to hospital in 30 mins or so, but its unlikely.
Why are your kids not interested - who knows 😀
lesser-spotted wonaye snake?
Either a Grass or an Adder around Peaslake. Was it on Snake's Hill, perchance? Plenty there in the early sunshine!
Although very unlikely it could be a released pet snake.
post the piccies just in case?
like me snakes....
When you say rose up, do you mean like this:
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[i]It was about a meter long, maybe a bit more and maybe 2cm diameter, blue gray colour maybe with some markings on the head[/i]
This is not sounding like any snake native to Surrey. Perhaps the sinister forces which are trying to drill for oil on Leith Hill have released a deadly plague of cobras to drive the villages away from their land?
[edit] realises OMITN told him to lie down hours ago...
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Will someone please peel me off the ceiling!!!
Found this last year in my garden:
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It was a slow worm-lizard without legs rather than a snake.
Protected and don't kill them!
It moved so fantastically too.
Slow worms are great, seen a fair few. IIRC its illegal even to disturb them, let alone kill them!
The only blue snake I've ever seen was a Blue Racer out in Michigan. Perhaps one got stuck in the back of a 4x4 built in Detroit and jumped out when the DFL driver parked up in Peaslake to unload his Santa Cruz cake run bike.
Better safe than sorry..
Get yourself one of these next time:
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I've seen an adder on a road near Oxford that was almost a meter long. They're often a bluey-grey colour, and the zog-zig markings are often indistinct.
IIRC its illegal even to disturb them, let alone kill them!
Yeah, but who's going to know?
Yeah, but who's going to know?
There's always people watching, dontchaknow
Apparently nudging periwinkles is a capital offence.
Its still in the statue books you know, honest.