Nature pics from my phone

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This is ~300 meters from my house. The entrance at least

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This river is called "De Worm" (The Wurm)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wurm

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It's the unofficial border between the Netherlands where I live, and Germany on the most southern part of the NL

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I come here a couple times a day sometimes.

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There are lost of turtles, sneks, some beavers and bovine. All wild and free wandering

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Also there's an adjacent lake with plenty of fish

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Cows? No one?

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Sneks? This one is missing his tail. It crawled funny

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We're not known for our nature but this bit is stunning

Gedver Limburg

>>2395213
Anguis fragilis (Hazelworm) probably, would explain the missing tail

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>>2395216
Oh ga toch weg (alles met een zachte 'g'). Mooiste provincie

>>2395217
This does look exactly like the thing I've found yeah. Thanks. I also saw a green one about a meter long and a silvery one ~40cm in length. Can you identify that without pictures?

>>2395221
The larger snake sounds like a Grass Snake (Natrix natrix) and the "silvery one" could have been a few things but was likely an Adder (Viperus berus) or if you live in a good area with abundant lizard food (like the "Hazelworm" which is a legless lizard) then it sounds more like a Smooth Snake (Coronella austriaca)

>>2395235
>Grass Snake
Didn't look like the Grass Snake. It was bright green and very thin. Less than 2cm in diameter despite its length. The other doesn't like look it much eityher but I was too busy laughing at my hysterical girlfriend. Will take pics next time.

How do you like the photo's?

>>2395235
Just curious, how is a legless lizard not a snek?

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>>2395239
>>2395282
nvm found some info on wikipedia for those interested:
"Although these lizards are often mistaken for snakes, a number of features differentiate them. The most important one is that they have small eyes with eyelids that, like other lizards, blink. Unlike snakes, they may also have visible ears. They shed their skin in patches, whereas most snakes shed their whole skin. Slow worms may also shed their tails (autotomy) as a defence mechanism, by breaking one of their tail vertebrae in half. Also, the pattern of their ventral scales is totally different from that of snakes."

>>2395282
Summarized: evolution. Legless lizards secondarily lost their limbs probably due to their habitat. Wikipedia: These lizards are often distinguishable from snakes on the basis of one or more of the following characteristics: possessing eyelids, possessing external ear openings, lack of broad belly scales, notched rather than forked tongue, and/or a very long tail (while snakes have a long body and short tail).

The same evolutionary pathway happened in things like Caecilians for example.