What You See is What You Get!


Various requests for help arrive in the KRAG Secretary’s email box. Most of them have to do with garden ponds. Increasingly people are using their digital cameras to record what they see and use this to illustrate their questions.

A week ago, an e-mail arrived from a guy in Berkshire who asked if I could confirm that the snake he had found coiled around a rose bush in his garden was an adder. From the photo he provided (see below) it was easily identified as a boa constrictor!




The species in question is from S. America and the Caribbean and had almost certainly escaped from a local pet keeper. Boas aren’t venomous and since the specimen in question was probably only 2-3 ft long, it can be regarded as completely harmless. Our advice was that if possible the snake should be coaxed into a bucket that should then be covered and weighted. Thereafter enquiries should be made locally to see if the owner could be found or failing that the RSPCA should be called.

Since giving this advice there has been no news, if there are any updates you will find them here.

Rick Hodges

Posted: Sat - August 26, 2006 at 11:16 am        

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