Blunt nose Viper in garden

gripontrnc


Joined: 27/05/2010
Posts: 69

Message Posted:
01/09/2011 09:53

.2 weeks ago my wife said she saw a blunt nose viper going into the lavender whilst swimming in the pool, there has been no sighting since then



yesterday I managed to find the energy to do some pruning in the garden and came across what looked like a piece of string, on inspection my concerns grew, it was the skin of a small viper could this mean there is a nest of these creatures and if so are there any garden sprays that would deter them from making our garden their home



you comments would be appreciated

Tango1


Joined: 19/02/2011
Posts: 1151

Message Posted:
01/09/2011 10:34

Leave them alone and they'll leave in time (as yours probably has) - PLEASE don't listen to the people who'll come on to the forum saying you should kill them. Just be carefull when in the garden. Don't put your hands under a push to do some weeding without checking first and if you have a dog or cat, they'll warn you where one is in any case!!

gripontrnc


Joined: 27/05/2010
Posts: 69

Message Posted:
01/09/2011 11:16

on further inspection what i thought was skin was acutually a baby viper, we have lage lizards in the garden would it have been possible for one of them to have killed it ?

Jovial_John


Joined: 31/01/2009
Posts: 1024

Message Posted:
01/09/2011 12:31

Magpies and crows (as well as cats and dogs) will kill snakes.With lizards I think it is the other way around.