Juvenile slow worm

The pavement outside out garden had become quite overgrown with grass and other vegetation. 

I decided to clear the pavement and to my surprise found a very small slow worm curled up in one of the small clumps of grass I pulled up.

 

I carefully placed the clump of grass plus slow worm into a overgrown corner of the garden. My wife found a juvenile slow worm in the garden a few days ago and adult slow worms turn up every now and again.

First slowworm of the year

While gardening, I noticed a slow-worm in the overgrown border. It was not moving and I was not sure if it was alive at first, as I had been causing quite a bit of disturbance.

I carefully stroked the slow-worm and it moved its head slightly.

After a while it glided slowly in the opposite direction. this charming leg-less lizard is a beneficial garden inhabitant feeding on small slugs and other invertebrates