UPDATED: After visits on the 8th and 11th April, two females have also joined the group of three males at one site. Although none of the males have sloughed their skin yet which means there won’t be any courtship behaviour for now. I have also created a “UK Adder diaries” page onto the blog.

ORIGINAL POST: Recently I visited two adders site, one which I mentioned previously which is suffering from high amounts of disturbance and another which is less well known fortunately. I have even received word recently from a colleague who says that a man offering an “adder photography workshop” was seen at the site with a cooler box. The idea being that adders are placed into the cooler box so that his participants can pose the snakes (once they are too cold to move properly) into any position they want. I am beginning to loathe certain sections of the wildlife photography circle due to this cruel and damaging way of conducting their business.

Despite this, six male adders were enjoying the sunshine and at the second location three regular males were doing the same.