Ever seen a snake wild in the UK?

Corvus

How 'bout in the house -

http://alleykat.co.uk/images/stuff/misc/Image0010.jpg

Came home from work one time, my boy was little(r) - "Hi Dad, there's a snake in the telly.."
"OK..."
Sure enough, snakey pokes out from under the black box.

Had some others too, reckon the cats bring them in, I've often seen them in our small pond. Apparently grass snakes are perfectly happy in water. One time there was a tiddler in the kitchen motionless and all corkscrewed up. Picked it up, put it outside - uncoils & shot off Must've been playing dead but stressed too maybe.

They've also brought in live rats & squirrels. Catching a live squirrel in your house is a right game!

Once climbing up a steep hill on the Isle of Arran, that you couldn't look upwards as you clambered, my left hand was planted next to a good-size black snake just coiled up having a peaceful kip. Grass snake I guess.

Flanging_Fred

Was at a pub last weekend and a group of kids found a grass snake in the beer garden. It fascinated them for ages, was quite a cute little fella really.

HAL9000

Seen grass snakes and adders in the UK. Also a black mamba in Tanzania. We had the 'snake talk' when we arrived in Tanzania and learned that mambas can not only outrun an Olympic sprinter but are apparently the only snake that can support 2/3 of its own length. This means that a 2m example can bite a human on the face - Ugh!

Foster

Wild? He was Livid!


Well somebody had to say it.

HAL9000

viz said:

Why didn't the viper viper nose?

Go on. I'll bite...

Cos the adder adder handkerchief

(Drum roll, cymbal!)

fftc

Sporky said:

Yesterday there was a hornet on the path. Big orange git. Luckily Sprocket left it be and it buzzed off elsewhere.

I'd probably shit myself if I saw a Hornet, but apparently they are really slow to anger unlike wasps, so don't present that much of a danger.

snakemanStoo

Seen a few slow worms

57Deluxe

was having an impromptu picnic at the Devils jumps on a hot summers afters, when saw all this movement under the blanket - was a bloody vipers* nest! Teaming....!

* I know I Know - Adders, but was for dramatic effect!

axisus

hotpot said:

No,  I would have loved to have seen one.

What - you went blind or you are posting from the afterlife?

Headphones

A friend of mine got bitten by an adder camping up north somewhere.

Having spent the evening in a clubhouse "relaxing", he somehow stumbled over it on the way back to the tent.  After a bit of hospital time, strange jabs and some weird swelling all was well.

Not the least of his mishaps, but perhaps the most surreal.

richh

Yes, on at least 2 occasions, one nearly 6' long!

I don't know for sure, but probably grass snakes?

thermionic

Headphones said:

A friend of mine got bitten by an adder camping up north somewhere.

Crikey. How do snakes even manage to erect tents?

Sporky

fftc said:

Sporky said:

Yesterday there was a hornet on the path. Big orange git. Luckily Sprocket left it be and it buzzed off elsewhere.

I'd probably shit myself if I saw a Hornet, but apparently they are really slow to anger unlike wasps, so don't present that much of a danger.

It did seem pretty mellow. Big though.

professorben

Bourne Woods Lincs about 10 years ago, saw about 5-6 adders. 

It was a warm spring day after a rainy spell. 

Couldnt believe it, but not one since returning many many times. 

Big ones too, at least 12". 

ThePrettyDamned

Loads of grass snakes around here, and saw a diamond backed adder a couple of years ago by the river. Beautiful thing. 

Saw me and fucked off, swam to the other side  

viz

HAL9000 said:

viz said:

Why didn't the viper viper nose?

Go on. I'll bite...

Cos the adder adder handkerchief

(Drum roll, cymbal!)

Phew! Thanks

prowla

A few years back I had an adder wander across the path in front of me when I was out cycling in the local woods.

rocktron

No. . . but I got the fright of my life in South America. As a kid, I found a piece of bamboo which I picked up to chop with a cutlass. Out of an end cavity, a fat red snake popped out and escaped into the bushes. I must have looked like Albert Einstein with my hair standing on my head as I ran all the way home never looking back!!!    

DLM

57Deluxe said:

 bloody vipers* nest! Teaming....!

@57Deluxe

Vipers teaming:
 http://vipers-handball.de/files/images/VIPERS-Mannschaftsfoto_Saison2016-17_1te-Handball-Liga_team.jpg
Vipers teeming:
 https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-R9ZGppMCOqk/V1K2r4fCa3I/AAAAAAAAZ7Q/bJ4X6jtSnEc8arprQ97TO_GInwiteFmcgCLcB/s1600/pit-vipers_091703.jpg

stimpsonslostson

I knew I had a photo of the last one I saw somewhere. 
http://i1295.photobucket.com/albums/b625/stimpsonslostson/Mobile Uploads/FB_IMG_1494752463773_zpsd4faiuy9.jpg