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Back on the wildlife front, our small garden never ceases to amaze me. We have had a resident grass snake for some time but it appears we actually had two because I noticed this tiny little fellow sunning him/herself on the parsley in the herb patch yesterday:
   
Judging by its size it probably hatched last July and there must be more about because they don't lay just one egg so it appears we have a family of them. Not good news for the newts in the pond which were decimated by our newt slaughtering blackbird last year. She went to meet her maker in the beak of a sparrowhawk recently but grass snakes live almost entirely on amphibians.