Dance of the adders (1 of 5 I'm afraid!)

            A few photos from an epic 35 minute battle between these two equally sized male adders. I'd spotted the darker marked male courting a female earlier on and went off for a few hours to check other areas. I came back and found these two in full combat. It's usually a pretty short event with one male showing dominance and the other shooting off defeated, so I had to decide, photos or video. I took several photos and realised neither was backing down so managed several short videos, then more photos. It was such a treat watching them for such a long time, the sun was behind me, they were on one high heather bank and I was on one opposite. I ended up just sitting down and watching them. They finally  tired themselves out and went in search of the female they were fighting over, who I'd seen some minutes earlier, disappearing into a pile of rocks. To say I went home happy would be an understatement! 
   

Taken on: May 4, 2023

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