Grass Snakes

Published: July 2007

Grass snakes will be laying their eggs about now, with the young hatching in about a months time, and a nice warm compost heap is one of their favourite sites. BBC Essex's Renee Hockley-Byam went along to Marks Hall at Coggeshall where the compost bins are regularly used as a nest site, and Curator Jonathan Jukes knew exactly where to look to find a female enjoying the afternoon sun.

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