I was visiting my granny in East Sussex when I decided to help on her allotment. Everything was as usual: we were planting seeds and giving the plants some water. But when my granny started watering the sweet peas, we noticed something slithering about, rattling in the supporting netting. It had a curvy shape and was long and slender: it was a grass snake!
Grass snakes are the most common species of snake in the UK. Luckily, they are non-venomous. Their scientific name is Natrix natrix. This grass snake had a brownish colour and was probably living in the allotment. Was it here because of the water? Was it here because there was an extra-large offering of treats? Anyway, it was clearly caught in the net and was trying to escape, each movement just made it worse for the poor creature.
