Minsmere Black Adder

On Friday 7th March, after having seen the uniformly excellent Buster James Band at the Legends of Rock, Vauxhall Holiday Park at Great Yarmouth at the unusual time of lunchtime 12.40pm. I didn't manage to arrive at Minsmere unmtil 2.15pm, having navigated reception, I took my optical gear and 3 cameras and lugged all this to the area underneath the Sand Martin cliff, on the south side/ right side of the bank. I was on the search for Adders specifically a Black Adder, no not Rowan Atkinson or Edmund Black Adder from the classic BBC comedy series but the reptile, Adder! I was immediately successful as no sooner had I started checking I mmediately located one at 2.20pm, a black Snake sunning itself with flattened body high up on the bank in a sunny spot but were there 2 Snakes because the Snake looked about 2.5 to 3 foot long? Eventually, this melaistic Adder moved and proved it was just 1 Snake it was the excellent black Adder, as the Snake moved the head was finally seen. Certainly the largest Adder I have ever seen measuring an estimated 80cm or 0.8 metres or in old imperial 2 and half foot long! I first heard and then briefly saw a Chiff- Chaff, my first of the year. I also heard the rasping call of an unseen Brambling. On the drive out, I checled a field and saw 2 Mistle Thrushes in the field and a lovely calling Curlew flew in and settled in the field too.