Their is plenty of snakes in London especially in parliament

Few points. 1. I've not heard of these snakes. 2. I didn't even know we had an _invasive_ species of snake in the UK. 3. Great to hear that they are not like other invasive species, Grey Squirrel, Mink, et al, that are not damaging the UK's native species. 4. Great video. Informative and concise with none of the bullshittery that you find in other _so called_ wildlife videos. 5. And I just subbed to your channel. 8-))...

I'm glad to have grown up in one of the few areas in Germany where the Aesculapian snake exists. It feels great seeing them in the backyard garden from time to time

Thanks for the video. My snake mad son has found both adders and grass snakes. We are headed to London and will be taking a stroll along the canal. No expectations but you have to be in it to win it.

I saw 3 in the grounds of the zoo a few years ago. They were basking on a low wall in the NW corner and I thought it was a very convincing sculpture and almost touched one of them before I realised they were alive.

I’ve put some hours in at that location trying to spot them, but only caught a couple of glimpses! Lots of toads and spiders though!!

Do they still have them around.? I saw three grass snakes the other day in Essex it was really nice to see. Made my day

Well I've learnt something today watching this!! Fascinating! 👍

I saw a snake last year on Hampstead Heath near the big pond and shat myself and so did my dog. I thought it might have been a released pet as it looked like a small cobra snake but now seeing this vid, I didn’t realise there were more than grass snake ps or sadder so the Uk. Fab vid 👍

This is awesome. Glad I found your channel. Definate sub from Somerset 😎 👍

A friend of mine used to have these all over his garden in France. Great snakes, very calm and docile.

In Kent when I lived there, in Sandwich( a real place not a joke), around 7/8 years old the village was a lot smaller, and from the village main area to my house it was about a mile, full of fields and scrub, and one day walking back home from school, I lifted this large stone out of curiosity for bugs, and instead I found a large corn snake underneath. And apparently there were quite a few living wild there, back then about 12 years ago. And in Ipswich, I've seen a wild yellow bellied slider terrapin living happily in the park near my university, basking in the sun on the shallow lake. Not to mention the various other invasive things, there's coypu tunnels left over in Byrons pool near Cambridge, seen tons of giant american crayfish, spotted asian longhorn harlequin beetles as well, plus non native wasp spiders a plenty, fire salamanders under logs in meadows, tons of muntjac and chinese water deer around. Also read about a wild racoon spotted in Scotland on trail cameras, and in St ives had a few chinese mitten crabs spotted in the rivers. And in London seen the wild parrots that live there. The UK is a hotspot for invasive things, who knows what might appear next? I bet if someone dumped a wild european jackal or two, no one would notice.

They're beautiful snakes, and it's great to hear that they are doing well in these two areas.

I live In Gloucestershire and as a young un (early 80s) there was is a large long hedge that went down a steep hill on the side of a road. Near the bottom of the hill the hedge was a diff hedge to the rest (only about 10 ft long ) and under there was soooo many lizards and Slow worms that we found over a few years (some around 8 inches plus long) me and a few mates were down there one day looking for slow worms and I lifted the edge this large stone looking for slow worms and something large went for me and I dropped it. Dunno what it was as under the hedge it was shaded Never found out what it was.

An extra non dangerous snake in Britain, thats awesome, now they must be somehow also get in the Netherlands and breed there, so we also have an cool partial tree snake 😃

Just found this channel. What a nice video ❤

I've seen snakes swimming up the river Don in Sheffield on two separate occasions.

Nice vid! Do one on waterdeer or muntjak.

excellent i wanna do a video how to build a hibernaculum for reptiles/amphibians.Can't atm though the slow worms in my garden are in hibernation

Very nice to see them living in central London I've got some grass snakes living under my shed at the bottom of the garden in north London and see them most days in the summer.... 👍

i grew up in Gloucestershire and found many adders and even took one home as a kid. my dad wasn't happy about that and told me to take it back where i found it which i did. adders are pretty docile but never take chances with them.

Very cool. Wish we had them in suburban NY

I live directly below London on the coast, i certainly wouldn't mind seeing them here one day 😊

First time I've heard of this snake. Around here we only get grass snake and Adder if you see one. Also that lizard Brown one

Love seeing them swim and in long grass they are quick great to handle

Beautiful

Nice video

Had a report of them being on Clee Hill. Something overwintering on the south slope longer than a access road was wide......

Brilliant vid . thank you. a good thing to have around to help keep down the squirrels and rats--goodness knows, in London, it is needed.

Cool vid, who knew!

Thats a beautiful looking snake

Stumbled upon this and I can say I have seen one years ago walking through the park towards camden a big brownish thing sun bathing on the path ...

I hope they stay shy 😆

a successful introduction.

What about the predation on birds?

I saw one I believe, I thought it was adder couple yrs back on a canal in east London

That's got to be a sight "snake running around London!"

I’m sure I’ve read that there is now wild wallabies in the UK. And if you haven’t already then of course the wild boar.

This is amazing, it’s a shame their in such a populated area though. Would be cold for them to be in some nature reserve where they can breed freely and not be disturbed

Are there any snakes in hackney

We saw one today, 11 June 2022, quite a long one, along the tow path near the zoo.

These snakes are very similar looking to the corn snakes I own, I do believe they are also colubrids

Anyone know what other snakes might survive in the UK?

As a snake owner I wish we did have snakes about the place. They’re actually a lot less scary than people think! Shame we haven’t got the right weather or environment for them though, these will be gone in the next year if you ask me

Where abouts in London is this!?

How cute

There's no shortage of snakes in temperate climates, and it's quite surprising to me that there aren't more aliens in the UK... Corn Snakes and King Snakes would be obvious examples of popular pet breeds that people might get bored with and release, once they got "too big," or lived "too long". I'm also surprised to hear that Aesculapian snakes will take rats... My corn snake is about 5', and there's no way she could take anything that big.

what about a écureuil roux ? that would be a problem

1:09 'a load of snakes running around London'. Running? :)...

I found a baby North American cornsnake in the UK...from some thick grass near a river

Check out the Adder

Do they claim expenses like the Westminster snakes

Are you encountering any invasive species, particularly with the increases in temperature due to global warming?

I live on the tow path in North London, and I have never seen one.

My Wife saw one of these snakes down here in Devon.

There's actually 4 species of snake native to the British isles: Adder, Grass snake, Smooth snake and One-Eyed trouser snake......

Wow that amazing. I often wish that we have more reptiles in England as they're beautiful & do such a good job eating vermin. I rescue exotic snakes & find them fascinating every single day & feel privileged to live along side them. 🐍💕🐍

I never knew that

Not the zoo? That’s some coincidence given the Welsh mountain zoo, in Colwyn Bay

A mystery to me how they survive the winter at this northerly longitude, not just them but our few native reptiles.

This country has too many rat🐀🇬🇧 mice problems so more of these snakes would be great 👍👌

i saw a grass snakes in my backyard

wow

Let’s hope there in abundance now and clearing up the streets of London

Look for slow worms - they're pretty rare these days as well.

I get grass snakes and slow worms in my garden

There are plenty of snake varieties in the Houses of Parliament .

Still glad that we have no land snakes in New Zealand..You can keep them.

also in Derbyshire so no doubt many more colonies

It's weird how we have the eastern world flooding UK, and here we are with all these none native exotic animals. London even has Parakeets.

And there I was thinking they'd infested Westminster.

👍🏼

Just leave them be, I'd rather a shy snake than a rat

You should try grass snakes 😂

Harley Street's just a wriggle away.

I think the London population has since petered out but the Colwyn Bay population still persists?

thats so funny, these Snakes are awsome but we cannot any

Alien species like terrapins i've seen them at lakes

If you have too many rat or mice problems why don't you import Tiger , Eastern Brown or Inland Taipans ?

💙💙💙💙💙💙

I saw one on a walk in that exact spot easily 1.5 metres swimming in the canal then climbimg up the side and out into the sidegrowth. Realised it wasnt native and called the police to let them know and had a couple of clear pictures to send. Completely think the police thought i was mad.

I'm in Southern California and would like to see rattlesnakes crawling around London, since it isn't English anymore 🇨🇳

In a way they maybe good as they eat rats 🐀 oh was mentioned in vid after I wrote this . Just as long as they are not dangerously venomous.

These were native to the UK before the ice age, when they were extincted here. The post ice age climate works for them again.

The Everglades would like to have a word about your definition of the word 'Huge'

I have photographed a grass snake in a tree 😎

Well that was a big let down

well i never.

Might they take a domestic cat?

Wow it's called Claus schwab viper parliament is full of them

Garter snakes can easily survive in the UK.

Well, Will Atkins might be an expert on Aesculapians but he's got it wrong in respect of the only snake in the UK to be aboreal - Grass snakes often climb into trees to raid birds nests, to mate and even to lay their eggs into the frass of rotting tree stumps...

Go wild in the country! _Where snakes in the grass are absolutely free!_

Tasty

A few cobras would liven things up a bit.

I hate snakes…I don’t know why I’m watching this!

Invasive will get some led just lyk the gray squirrels

I'd say check numbers in one area then compare it to decline in rats, bless them. If they taking Grey's and rats send them into London and major Cities. And scorpions got be next surely 🤔🙏

monty python!

If you new snakes everyone that noes snakes oh they will definitely travel and they breed like mad