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Be interesting to know what effect the seawater has on their scales.
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All these and many more questions in people's minds . . . . . Is anyone planning on studying these sea going snakes or are these ocurrences so isolated that they would be impossible to study?

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Well you just have to find island populations of snakes and study them - paint marking, photo identification, pit tagging (under license) radio tagging etc would probably pick up whether they move through sea water by accident - which does occur or by deliberate migration.

Ray Island in the River Blackwater has resident grass snakes, while the saltings there have adder records where presumably these snake venture out onto the saltmarshes in search of food in the summer.

Of course you can find snakes which have to swim for it in some of the coastal realignment projects where water voles, badgers, slowworms, adders etc have to or forced to swim via the incoming tide over farmland etc
Report your sightings to the Record Pool http://arguk.org/recording
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