Hi,
I was out cycling today in Snowdonia national park, and ran over and killed a strange snake. I came home looked on the internet to try and identify it, but I could find anything that looked like it, so I'm wondering if you guys can help. It was about 1.5 foot long, slate grey with perhaps a hint of green/brown, and it had 2 relatively bright yellow patches behind its ears.

I cant figure how to put a picture in here, but theres a sketch here ...

http://yfrog.com/jqsnakeij


I dont know much about snakes, and at the time thought it was some native species, and that I'd be able to look on wikipedia to find out what it was. I would have bought it home to photograph if I knew it was exotic. Can anyone tell me what it was?.

Thanks

Probably a grass snake:



Slightly better pic:

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Sounds like it was a Grass Snake:


OxARG: Grass Snake Picture

Shame you ran over it!

If it had zig zags I would have said an Adder as they are coming out to breed about now.

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Thanks,
Yeah, thats the one. Not too exotic then!.
I looked on wikipedia for grass snake ...

Grass Snake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

but none of the pictures there look anything like it.

Thanks again

It was an accident, I wouldnt have run it over deliberately!. I had seen an adder alive in the wild before, and also a slow worm.