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EUROPEAN EELS

Seeing a fish out of water makes it hard to realise it is a fish. Walking the dog early enough for dew to be fresh on the grass around Lake Virginia Water, I saw a huge snake slide across the path. Too big to be one of our native snakes and with a ridge along its back, I realised it was an eel. For eels on a mission a short stretch of damp grass can be a pathway.

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