Viperine Water Snake

More detail here

Thank you for the kind comments and birthday wishes yesterday - much appreciated.

Very warm today with a slight breeze 34°c - love it!

Today, I tried out two of my birthday presents and they work really well - one, a compact unbreakable flask - brilliant!
The other a folding chair (ideal for staking out wildlife) - well it's less cumbersome than a chair - hardwearing nylon covered foam in an 'L' shape with two straps, one on either side that makes a seat with a backrest, and it fits easily into a camera bag or in my motorbike top-box.

Ah, yes, and I had a book on nature photography and another on macro photography - watch out Blip .... ;)

In the nature book was an interesting article on the Viperine Water Snake - which then became my blip objective of the day - don't you love it when a plan comes together ...

So this is what Wiki has to say about it:

Natrix maura is a natricine water snake of the genus Natrix.
Its common name is viperine water snake or viperine snake.

Despite its common names, it is not a member of the Subfamily Viperinae.
This nonvenomous, semiaquatic, fish-eating snake was given its common names due to behavioural and aesthetic similarities with sympatric adder species.

The viperine snake looks like an adder and behaves like one. It is known to strike like an adder but not bite.
On the other hand, when in water, the viperine snake then looks like a grass snake and hunts its prey in the same way. This snake is diurnal

Hope Wednesday is good for you :)