Snake ID please Smooth???

RAINBOWRUSSELL · #1 (**permalink**) 25-08-2009, 02:31 PM

This lovely creature was slithering along outside the window & I managed to grab the camera & get out there before it vanished!It was trying to get up the wall to get away from me.
Is this a smooth snake?I strangly enough had a newsletter from the RS:PB today about them...which has really spooked me if it is one of those....din't realise they were so big!!!
It was slightly greener than the adders I spotted a while ago not far from the same spot in our garden!

If it is one do I have to report a sighting as I think they are quite rare!?

RAINBOWRUSSELL · #2 (**permalink**) 25-08-2009, 02:41 PM

Thinking it may be a Grass Snake????I always thought they were small????

Beekeeper · #3 (**permalink**) 25-08-2009, 02:48 PM

Have commented on your other thread which has the same picture.

BK

marvin · #4 (**permalink**) 25-08-2009, 03:45 PM

hi

the collar is pretty faint but its def a grass snake. great find anyway!

tim

RAINBOWRUSSELL · #5 (**permalink**) 25-08-2009, 03:48 PM

Thanks you guys...I had to take the pic so quickly I'm shocked it turned out as well as it did!
I just read that they can grom to 6 feet?????Crikey...wot a bute!!!!
Really excited cos I've never seen one of these before,are they rare?

vole-woman · #6 (**permalink**) 25-08-2009, 03:58 PM

Gorgeous!

JaySteel · #7 (**permalink**) 25-08-2009, 07:13 PM

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Originally Posted by RAINBOWRUSSELL

Really excited cos I've never seen one of these before,are they rare?

Definitely a grass snake. No, not rare. But they are very hard to find as they hear you coming from a long way off and usually disappear before you ever get the chance to see them. Well spotted! I wish I had the opportunity to photograph one that size.