Almost trod on this little chap today.
Luckily I noticed him just in time and avoided hurting him.
Luckily I noticed him just in time and avoided hurting him.
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cool, I've only ever seen one of them in my life. I was twelve, at a scout camp and it bit one of my mates.
Nice piccy,
I do like adders, used to watch them sunning them selves on the forestry roads in the summer and would like you always do my best to avoid hurting / scaring them.
( Did get the chance to cook one up that had been killed by a car... like they say about most things it kinda tasted of chicken - though much longer fibers to the meat ).
My girlfriends dad was bitten by two different adders on the same leg in the same day. Luckily he remembered that as their teeth aren't hollow most of the venom sits on rather than in the wound, so irrigation with water will take most of it away. After the second one though his leg was pretty sore. It's still not taught him to slow down out there, he still charges off at top speed. I prefer to wander, look around and not get bitten.
Cheers
Goatboy.
I do like adders, used to watch them sunning them selves on the forestry roads in the summer and would like you always do my best to avoid hurting / scaring them.
( Did get the chance to cook one up that had been killed by a car... like they say about most things it kinda tasted of chicken - though much longer fibers to the meat ).
My girlfriends dad was bitten by two different adders on the same leg in the same day. Luckily he remembered that as their teeth aren't hollow most of the venom sits on rather than in the wound, so irrigation with water will take most of it away. After the second one though his leg was pretty sore. It's still not taught him to slow down out there, he still charges off at top speed. I prefer to wander, look around and not get bitten.
Cheers
Goatboy.
Iv seen an Adder and a Grass snake. Once was on our old allotment, the other, we found a baby Adder sunning itself in our garden (ideal as its all paved). Dad took it up the woods and released it.
Years ago, in my teens, on my own in the Yorkshire Moors, an adder that I hadn't seen struck at my leg - luckily it just caught the cloth of my trousers.
I often think how fine a line there is between what does happen and could happen
I often think how fine a line there is between what does happen and could happen
I came across a baby last year. It was going through the full coil and strike repertoire but as it was only a few inches long it looked cute rather than scary, which wasn't it's intention I'm sure.
http://www.adder.org.uk/
If anyone anywhere see's an adder, could they add it (excuse the pun!) to the national survey please re above link.
This is soo important and I'm sure we'll all agree is worth helping out with.
Cheers
WS
If anyone anywhere see's an adder, could they add it (excuse the pun!) to the national survey please re above link.
This is soo important and I'm sure we'll all agree is worth helping out with.
Cheers
WS
