Out there gardening, on the terraces, as you do in autumn. Gathering dead leaves, chopping, tidying, gathering all the clippings into one pile. Go away, do something else, return to the pile of clippings to clear away. And something wriggled…
![[photo: Gerard Beersma & iberianature.com]](https://notesonaspanishvalley.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/montpellier-snake-photo-gerard-beersma-iberianature-com-6-10-14.jpg)
[photo: Gerard Beersma & iberianature.com]
Montpellier snakes can be up to 2m but this baby was only about 1 foot long.
For more information about Montpellier snakes, click here for the excellent Arkive website or here for the Iberian Nature website.
5 to remember
cortando/a – chopping
limpiando/a – tidying
los recortes – the clippings
escurridizo/a – wriggly
exacto/a – exact
Yikes!
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Exactly! SD
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Snakes – ugh! And look how it blends in – scary. (Yes, yes I am a big wuss.)
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It’s actually rare for us to see them, I think they run as soon as they hear us blundering around. 🙂 SD
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