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ST24
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Posted: 26 Feb 2011

Chuffed to bits at finally finding Grassies over my local haunt, though it took me until mid May. I must add these ae my first GS for 4 years or so, so you can understand my thrill. I was looking for a female Adder that had become  a bit of a regular but I hadn't seen her for a while in the usual basking spot. Whilst searching the area I was amazed to see a monster grassie in the area usually occupied by the Adder. it was late morning and very sunny and so it was off before I managed to get the camera out. It was perhaps co-incidental that I came across the Adder by chance leaving the area and was aware of a helluva lot of hissing and fuss and there she was- not only disturbed by me but it would appear evicted from her favoured spot by a snake twice her size. Is there much confrontation betwen the UK snake species??

Any way, days later and not having seen the GS, I came across this - all 85cm of it.

The biggie was not seen again, but, a few weeks later I found another, smaller one basking near a small pond that was rapidly drying out in that short bit of a Summer we had..

  Very happy!! Can't wait to get bak out there...


- Cannock Chase 2010

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