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    Posted: 14 Apr 2014 at 2:17pm
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It's taken me longer to reduce the photo file size and upload it than it did to find this little Adder!  So that's a very small Adder shot on my iPhone. First encountered (her?) laying in short grass, body flattened, soaking up some rays. Very docile. Moved her on a little stick and placed her where I took this shot. She soon adopted this pose then beat a very hasty retreat. Beautiful. All of bout 6 inches long if stretched out, I thnk. Saw a tail of a disappearing adult but I only had a quick hour to spare. About 12 dgrees but cool wind off the sea and hard to find shelter. Seen a few in this location before.
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Well spotted ginger were in Kernow was you keith

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Nice find Ginger. Cornwall is great for Adder eh? I the right conds, i never have much trouble finding them along the SW Coast Path. Also remember seeing one on the moorland near Madron. For almost as far as you could see, it was black as night following a fire. Then, right in the middle of it, very close to the Neolithic Men-an-Tol, suddenly an Adder appeared.
Perhaps it survived by going down a burrow.
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That was a interesting point liz

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It was one of my most memorable herp encounters Keith. Unexpected and eerie! The ground was still gently smouldering and i remember thinking that the whole place resembled some scene from a corny 1970's Hammer Horror film!
I quickly reached for my crappy non-digital pocket camera to try and get a pic of the - unharmed as far as i could tell - snake, but it rapidly disappeared into the charred gorse embers as suddenly as it had appeared.
Thankfully, the ring doughnut-like Men-an-Tol ("stone with hole") burial chamber stones escaped the ravages of the blaze too - they had a grassy fire-break around them.



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Keith, I was just up the road from St.Ives. I know a perfect path on a South facing slope, that cuts around a hill. It makes a perfect break, providing a continuous edge that they come to for a bit of sun. Makes a nice walk too, up to about 300 metres, nice views. 
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