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This should make up for the gap. Grass snake (natrix natrix) spotted whilst out & about today - female easily 4ft long. Grass snakes love water and are good swimmers. They can bite, but have no venom. They usually roll over and pretend to be dead.
Photo courtesy of Very Nice Ranger. Cheshire's Countryside Rangers are fantastic; their roles are hugely underestimated not just in bringing communities together, but also in terms of the hard and relentless work that they do to conserve & manage wild and green spaces.
