Not quite Kaa

Look at this!

It's a Grass Snake, but just a little one (see the nearby snail).

Turned it up during recent reptile survey work along with stacks of Slow Worms (see below).
This is such a beautiful creature - the yellow collar is the key identification clue. Although this is a baby, Grass Snakes can be really BIG - 1.8m+ !!

And here are the SWs . We seem to be finding tremendous numbers this year, but maybe that's just because the weather's rubbish and they're far to cold to be out and about when we come calling.

The larger darker adults are on the left and the paler juveniles on the right. Grown-ups in the kitchen drinking tea, kids all crowded round a DS or a PSP - the usual story.