CamVine Wildlife

7 May 2008

For a while now we’ve had three frogs in the CamVine pond. Usually we just hear them splash into the pond as we head for coffee in the house, but if you know what you’re looking for you can see them hiding in the mud. More recently we spotted a common newt, and now we’re sure there’s at least three newts, possibly more.

All well and good, but we were taken by surprise yesterday when we spotted the new visitor to the pond – a snake!

We appear to have taken on a grass snake. This was quite exciting, in that I’ve never seen a snake in the “wild” before. Alas it’s probably less good news for the other residents of the pond, as they seem to be what grass snakes eat, and grass snakes are protected species and the others aren’t.

I’m just wondering if it’s any good at coding in python… ;)