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Showing posts with label smooth snakes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label smooth snakes. Show all posts

Saturday 18 July 2009

More beautiful smooth snakes



Our most endangered reptiles are busy basking and getting ready to give birth. Some juveniles from last year are also on the move looking for baby lizards and insects to feed on. These larger individuals were basking together on the heath and are in superb condition. Smooth snakes are incredibly rare and it is an honour to be able to see and photograph them like this. They are very vulnerable to heath fires and their continued existence is tenuous indeed.....