{"id":490154,"date":"2026-03-23T01:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T01:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/490154\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T01:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T01:19:09","slug":"species-debate-as-snake-spotted-in-oxfordshire-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/490154\/","title":{"rendered":"Species debate as snake spotted in Oxfordshire village"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Massage therapist Richard Claughton of Eynsham Massage saw a snake while on a run near to Chilbridge Road in Eynsham.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He uploaded the video of the snake slithering around, which has since been viewed over 30,000 times.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordmail.co.uk\/news\/25948833.director-collapsed-slaughterhouse-loses-court-battle-brother\/?ref=ed_recent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Director of collapsed slaughterhouse loses court battle against brother<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He said: \u201cLook who&#8217;s out for the sun in Eynsham! I literally stumbled upon this chap on my 5km run just down Chilbridge Lane in the fields.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cPretty sure it\u2019s an Adder. Just under 1m long. I got hissed at for recording. I&#8217;ve always found snakes fascinating, my wife on the other hand is horrified.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Although many reacted with fascination to the snake video, some were sceptical whether it was an adder or not and thought it was more likely a grass snake.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201c100 per cent a gorgeous grass snake, you are very lucky,\u201d said one commenter.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Another said: \u201cThis is a grass snake. You can see the yellow band around its neck.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordmail.co.uk\/news\/25950997.blood-stains-found-garden-animal-killed-hound-hunt\/?ref=ed_recent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Blood stains found in garden as animal &#8216;killed&#8217; in hound hunt<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A separate person commented that adders usually have a \u2018V\u2019 shape on their head.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Grass snakes are primarily found in England and Wales and are non-venomous, shy creatures.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Mr Claughton is currently training to be an osteopath and more information about him can be found here: <a href=\"http:\/\/eynshammassage.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/eynshammassage.co.uk\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Massage therapist Richard Claughton of Eynsham Massage saw a snake while on a run near to Chilbridge Road&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-490154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490154","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=490154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}