Slow worm?

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[mcshroom]

Looks like it.

Don't pick it up as it may get spooked and detach it's tail which isn't good for the creature.

 

[BigonaBianchi]

arrh....so cute

 

[numbnuts]

I hate snakes

 

[Profpointy]

I hate snakes

I know no-one likes a smart-arse but it's not a snake !

 

[Saddle bum]

My garden is infested with them. Unfortunately, our Moggie takes a toll of them, which is apparently quite common.

Had to rescue one just the other day.

 

[Archie_tect]

Yuk.

 

[numbnuts]

I know no-one likes a smart-arse but it's not a snake !

It's long round so it's a snake

 

[Herr-B]

It's long round so it's a snake

So is my garden hose, is that a snake?

 

[ianrauk]

What a beautiful looking creature...

 

[Glow worm]

Beautiful find- always good to see them.

 

[annedonnelly]

[QUOTE 2473960, member: 45"]Came home to find this on the patio...

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I wish we had them around here! I have to content myself with watching the tadpoles in the pond.

 

[Bollo]

We get them in my garden as well around the compost bins. I've seen a few this year so hopefully the local population is healthy. Lawnmowers and cats are indeed the usual nemises, but I saw one dispatched by a magpie recently, the pecky bastard!

 

[ufkacbln]

Anguis Fragilis

A legless lizard as opposed to a snake, and a protected species.

Hadle them gently and mainly by the forward half and the tail will not come off

 

[Flying_Monkey]

I had a crazy biologist friend at university who specialized in slow worms. She had a terrarium full of them in her room, and she had trained them to do various things. Unfortunately she also used to dissect some of them.

I love them. When I was young, there were dozens of them on my parents' garden. You hardly see them at all now anywhere in their neighbourhood.