Emerges from hibernation in March and may be active until October.
It favours heaths, moors and dry grassy places.
It feeds on various insects such as grasshoppers, caterpillars and spiders. It is quite common all over Slop Bog.
The best place to see them is on the boardwalk where they bask in the morning sunshine.

Although Slow-Worms may look like a snake, they are really lizards, which do not have limbs.
They come out of hibernation in March and remain active until October.
They live along hedgerow banks, heaths, and dry grassy places.
They feed on insects, including worms.
Fairly common on Slop Bog, best looked for early in the morning,
They may be seen sunning themselves on the edge of pathways.

Our only poisonous snake, it will only attack to defend itself.
It is the most widely distributed of our three native snakes.
They feed on small mammals, nestlings, and lizards.
It is to be found on heaths, moors, and woodland rides.
Emerges from hibernation in March and is active until October.
Only a few are seen each year at Slop Bog.
You are most likely to see one sunning its self on the path ways across the heath.

Common and wide spread. Visits ponds and lakes to breed.
Spawning may take place as early an February or March in Southern England .
Feeds on insects, worms, and spiders.
At Slop Bog, they can be seen spawning in February and March.
Look for them in the ponds in front of the viewing platform on the boardwalk.