tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-787756530788587205.post3003775340039926632..comments2023-09-01T03:57:52.981-07:00Comments on Down in the Forest Something Stirred. . . .: Snakes Alive!Brenda (Rosie)http://www.blogger.com/profile/05872426810745617403noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-787756530788587205.post-57161511029252312812011-05-01T05:16:18.394-07:002011-05-01T05:16:18.394-07:00I got a great shock when first I saw one of these....I got a great shock when first I saw one of these. It took off, almost vertically up the steep face of a crag, which may have been the one in the photograph. Remarkable, no other animal has quite the same ability to disappear so quickly. People have the same fear of snakes as they do of spiders, but I have never understood this. Mind you Eldest Daughter has just been bitten by something which we suspect was an adder as there were two faint fang marks on her shin and she had to go to hospital with the pain and swelling. No-one seemed to know what it was. But more than a passing bee, evidently.Fenniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377814681496294457noreply@blogger.com