Guess what we had in the house!

[womble]

A baby grass snake! About 10" long.

My DD was really excited as she hadn't seen one close before, it was pretty cool

But you try catching a baby grass snake, which is wrigglier, that a wriggly, wriggly thing. I wasn't sure if even at that size it could have bitten me and it was so quick, catching it behind the head didn't seem a clever idea.
I got it on a book in the end and it quietened down while I took it outside to some long grass, thankgod the cat was absent at that moment.

[Two_Sheds]

Lucky you!
Did you catch it in a pillowcase? And is the cat under house arrest now?

[womble]

I got it on a book and for some reason it just sat there I did say that TS
The cat lives outside most of the year, so keeping it inside isn't an option.

I saw another baby grass snake last week in my next door neighbours garden (was a different one), so we must have had a nest round here I presume.

Still never seen an adder though.

[burnie]

I got in on a book and for some reason it just sat there I did say that TS
The cat lives outside most of the year, so keeping it inside isn't an option.

I saw another baby grass snake last week in my next door neighbours garden (was a different one), so we must have had a nest round here I presume.

Still never seen an adder though.

You're a bit damp for adders in your area,try Thetford area on the heathland.

[hamsterqueen]

I'd have been out of the house faster than a fast thing.

[Queen bee]

Slither , Slither

We don't see many snakes here in Ireland, not since St. Patrick kindly banished them , you might have heard.
I did see one like that outside Rome once. It slid over the wheel and into the buisness end of the V.W. van we were travelling in. Though I often thought about it, I didn't see it since.
The scariest thing I have observed of late is the lack of bee activity .......

[Drucil]

Have you or your neighbours got a pond as they like to be near water and do swim

[Nicos]

We disturbed some eggs last August - in the compost. They were covered up within 15 mins and were moving inside their shell- but I think that was too much exposure- and none of them hatched. Sort of sad- and sort of relieved!

Interesting find though!!!

[Glutton4...]

Wot - No pictures!!!?

[organic]

This reminds me of a snake I saw near Bolton a while back. We were (I'm ashamed to admit) in a McDonalds car park when a guy who looked a bit odd said "do you want to see a snake?".

It turned out he wasn't being a nutcase though - it was on the ground between a bin and some bushes.

It was either a milk snake or a coral snake and had probably escaped from someone keeping it as a pet. I wasn't on the ball that day or I'd have called someone to come and get it. I did think it seemed a bit wrong for an exotic snake to be out and about in the UK but there was no way I was about to put my hand close enough to get a reminder of the "red next to black... red next to yellow" rhyme that I'd forgotten.

Other than that rather unexpected sighting in a Bolton car park, I've never seen a snake in the wild in the UK. I'd like to though.