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chubsta
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Posted: 17 May 2017 at 5:55am |
Had a surprise visitor to my hedgehog feeding station last night, looks like a juvenile snake to me but what do I know! Anyone fancy an ID even though there are no colour details?
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will
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slowworm - hedgehog food!
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chubsta
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I did originally think slowworm due to the stumpy tale but it has been years since i saw one and i thought they were 'stockier' than this. Don't fancy his chances much though, had at least 8 different hogs visit the feeder multiple times last night...
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will
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def. slowworm - small head, shiny body, small eyes, rather stiff movements (admittedly on a shiny substrate) but a snake would be much more coiled up, sinuous, supple. Looks like a young male, and they can be long and thin, and it does look like he's missing the tip of his tail which would be less likely in a snake (though of course could be lost in a snake due to injury rather than autotomy).
Maybe you haven't seen a slowwie for ages precisely because you've got hedgehog city in your garden |
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Liz Heard
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Great post 'Chubsta'!
Will's right of course - a struggling slow worm. |
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Tom Omlette
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fascinating! hope he's ok
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chubsta
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Well, he hasn't been seen again... Funnily though, i last saw evidence of a slowworm in the garden a couple of years ago when i found the half-eaten remains of quite a large one, i thought at the time that it must have been dropped by a crow or similar but now think it is more than likely to have been lunch for a hedgehog, I guess we will never know but given the hog numbers at the moment there is little chance of the two species not encountering each other here |
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