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The drowning thing is not just confined to bees. I kept birds in aviaries for years and always had a large stone in the middle of the water pool or else I would end up with drowned birds.

Cuckoo pint leaves look quite like the edible sheeps sorrel, although are reasonably poisonous. I remember many years ago stating to a seasonal ranger that the leaves that she was looking at were in fact lords & ladies or cuckoo pint, she thought she would try them anyway as she was convinved...

Well done for trying anyway. Best time for reptiles is after a couple days cooler weather and then a day with some sun and some clouds so that they have to bask for a bit longer than just pure sun. Also depends on time of year when the best time of day is - spring/ autumn it's midday, summer...

You've just volunteered to go ask the zoo staff where's the best place to see them and get a pic now. Go for it. If you get a picture of one there (no copying google images!) I'll donate a fiver to 'Froglife'. It is diurnal so should be a piece of cake...

Interesting about the N Wales colony. I'd be keen to see them - bit far for me though but maybe a family break sometime. Must check that out. Just checked it out here http://www.herpconstrust.org.uk/animals/other_reptiles.htm Small colony around the Welsh Mountain Zoo in Colwyn Bay for...

Elaphe longissima is an Aesculapian snake - looks like it to me too. These things are pretty big - up to 200cm, so the books say. Only seen dice snakes, grass snakes and vipers in europe and adders and grass snakes in UK. The smooth snake is a small thing which I have seen but only in...

The only pic I can see on this now is by Gailainne and looks like a female (not being pedantic but it is one of the few sexually dimorphic species of snake in the world - ie you can tell males and females apart). However depending on what size it was it may just have been juvenile of either...