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Quick answer
If you provide places to hunt, bask and shelter, local snakes
may visit your garden.
Further information
Grass snakes enjoy similar habitats to amphibians so if you have
frogs in the garden you may see grass snakes too. Try to
maintain varying heights of vegetation, log/stone piles and a
compost heap which can be used by both. Grass snakes feed
primarily on amphibians and fish - if you have a pond then this
will help to attract them.
Like all reptiles, snakes need places to bask, forage and
hibernate. The types of features mentioned above, that are
easily accessible from one another, all increase the chances of
grass snakes visiting. If you have suitable habitats and the
garden itself is accessible, they will probably appear at some
point, though grass snake visits may be fleeting.
It is important to report your sightings to help build up local
and national records of these declining species. Get in touch
with the local
Biological Records Centre and you local
Amphibian
and Reptile Group (ARG).
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