What's Crawling Today

LoL, was your snaker a smaller version of this one, if so it was probably a southern smooth snake, widespread in Portugal.

 

Oooh, Strongy, think that may be his Mum or Dad ... how do we know who's who here or dare I ask?

Yes, little nipper looked very like that. They have been trimming the orange trees in the orchards and all sorts of critters are appearing as they chainsaw, chop, cut and then munch the stuff in these machines ... smells nice, sounds horrible! :eek:

We think little nipper and various bugs that have appeared since the orchard trimming started have migrated to us to avoid anihilation! :eek: again!

Okay, so he escaped and slithered over the stone wall and into the safety of my kitchen :eek: :eek: where I fortunately discovered it.

I at first thought it was a night crawler worm which we have here and I had one of them in the kitchen last week ... they are the thingies that are so sized and then go red and treble in length ... :eek: yet again!

Thank goodness I happened past at that moment as it may have gone into the living room / bedrooms and GROWN UP ... doesn't bear thinking about!

 

OOOO don't like wriggly things,would have been off like a shot.

 

I,m frightened of snakes would run a mile.
strongyloden looks like that snake has just had his dinner :D :D

 

They are the southern sub species of our own very rare smooth snake and often use constriction when capturing their prey, which are lizards, geckoes :( and small rodents.

Rosa, it could be pregnant!

 

I'm wondering where the mother is of our little nipper ... really don't want to think about that. Must say since all the disturbance in the orchard, I'm not so keen on the two little uns prancing around in there :eek; they may enounter Mum who may be hungry! :eek: :eek:

I haven't seen any geckos lately so assume they are hibernating or whatever they do!

 

never thought of that the snake being pregnant.
LoL i would keep those kittens in if there is snakes lurking around in them fields

 

even if they use constriction to catch the prey, they still have to eat it...

 

The smooth snake could not eat anything as large as a kitten, it would more likely be killed by a kitten or cat!