Fernworthy / Fernworthy Forest
An adder day – but, for the record, also a darter, spider, red admiral, hoverflies, greenbottle, stonechat, scabious, acorns and yellow stagshorn. My trained snake-hound walked over the dead adder without even noticing it. I took a photo and then used a bit of bracken to manoeuvre her into a fiercer, more photogenic pose. She wasn’t quite dead – I wondered if she’d been trodden on. After remaining still for a few photos, she slithered off into the undergrowth at speed, hissing furiously at me, clearly at the ‘perfectly fine’ end of the ‘dead / not quite dead / perfectly fine’ spectrum.
