Reptile Training (not training reptiles!)

This morning I went to Wem Moss for training in preparation for reptile surveying for the Wildlife Trust. It's a wild lowland peat bog that has several species including adder (I saw a large female there a couple of years ago). It's very dodgy underfoot with  ditches and pools under the vegetation so very much twisted ankle territory! Some of the volunteers are photographed in the extra picture.

The only reptile to be spotted today  was a slow worm found by F., the first to be recorded on the site. Unfortunately it disappeared before I could get there with the camera.

In the main photo the Wildlife Trust Ranger was standing on some 5000 year old pine tree trunks that had been found and dug up while laying the plastic sheets which keep drainage ditches open. He's looking at the birds in the scrub.