Rare lesser grey shrike spotted on dunes at Winterton-on-Sea<\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n “At first, I was in shock, but I knew it would rather just move away than attack me.”\n<\/p>\n
\n A black adder is a melanistic variant of the common European adder.\n<\/p>\n
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Adders are the UK’s only venomous snake(Image: Daniel Majer)\n<\/p>\n
\n It is recognised by its dark zig-zag pattern, which is still visible on the black skin and a red eye.\n<\/p>\n
\n Adders are the UK’s only venomous snake, but their venom is generally of little harm to humans and they would rather hide in the undergrowth than bite.\n<\/p>\n
\n The reptile shares its name with that of the hit series Blackadder.\n<\/p>\n
\n The main character, Edmund, adopts the title “The Black Adder” during the first episode, which relates to his cunning, deceitful and cowardly traits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daniel Majer unexpectedly caught sight of the reptile when he was out walking around a “lesser known part…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-188219","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-unitedkingdom","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}