After a long and cold winter people across Wales have been able to enjoy the recent warm weather. But it's not just brought out sun-seekers in their summer clothes as for one community Britain's largest wild snakes are re-emerging from hibernation.
Residents in Colwyn Bay in Conwy have become accustomed to living alongside the Aesculapian rat snake with the constrictors often seen in gardens, undergrowth, and compost heaps, NorthWalesLive reports. But as they too embrace the hot spell many have been hit and killed by cars.
In the past week Tom Buckley said he has seen three dead snakes. “All three were on the roads and were possibly hit by cars travelling down from the mountain zoo,” he said. “The more people know of their whereabouts the better. From now on I will always be on the lookout for them one in the roads. If I see one I’ll try to move it – or just wait until it moves out the way.”
