Any native snake experts?

[anonymous-user]

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[Nightmare]

to be completely honest, if you do it now, and the weather does turn cold again they'll probably not do too well.....they wont be able to move to somewhere new now.

I though compost heaping was any time in spring from feb to april to do? is it just cos you have time now?

[ryanjohnstott]

Adders are also protected.

Please don't disturb hibernating snakes.

Why not start a new compost heap? Two heaps work better than using one anyway.

[condor]

I saw a grass snake a couple of days ago in the undergrowth - probably due to the recent mild weather we've been having.
Good idea to check up on what different species of snakes look like...and leave them be till Feb onwards

[knotweed]

They won't be as lively when they're cold but that means it'll take them longer to move somewhere else, which will leave them exposed to the cold - it's best to leave it until the weather warms up and they'll be much quicker to move away.

Snakes are very unlikely to attack unless they feel threatened (I've handled adders (after being shown how to!) and slow worms and never had issues) so move the compost carefully and make sure there is somewhere else for them to move to. As someone else said, why not start another compost pile? They'll go under piles of timber, bits of corrugated iron etc as well.

Edited by knotweed on Saturday 5th January 02:32

[Nightmare]

anonymous said:

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top man, thats very good of you

you're staggeringly unlikely to get bitten...and certainly not from a slow worm!