A 10-year-old woman has actually said she was “incredibly ecstatic” to have actually identified a snake swimming in a canal.
Mollie was with her sibling, 12, and daddy Richard, when she discovered a moorhen “following something” in the Cromford Canal, in Matlock, Derbyshire, last month.
She said: “I was incredibly delighted to see a snake in the wild – I’ve never ever seen one in the canal prior to.”
Her papa Richard, from Kirkby-in-Ashfield, who recorded the sighting, said he thought it had to do with 4ft (1.2m) long.
A lawn snake was likewise spotted swimming in a park in neighboring Belper just recently.
Derbyshire Wildlife Trust said at the time: “The size of yard snakes in some cases alarms individuals however they are entirely safe to us.”
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