I am going to start holding café gatherings in wireless locations so some workshop leaders can learn how to use Wordpress and find easy access to RSS feeds. One of them, our very own Simon King, the butterfly man Phil Harris, just sent me this for you.

‘I took some students to Loe Bar with Keith Spurgin to look at the fascinating plants around the 1st of April. We were lucky enough to capture this photo of a snake at Loe pool. It was pleasantly soaking up the sun in the hedge with three other of its sort. It was just after the gate before the cottage over by the Culdrose stream end.

Here’s a note about our find…

Arrived in the car Park and then slammed the Van door. I shut it in a particular way and trapped my finger in the door - yes the nail has now three weeks later completely dropped off - a bad start.

Proceeded to walk out along the path through the woods past the bench and open water. As we walked through the gate into the lane I noticed a Lizard, as I pointed it out to the students my eye caught a movement further up in the hedge and there was a black adder with three normal adders. All were at eye level and at peace with all of us watching them at close quarters. They had obviously just hibernated in that spot and were waking up together.’