Can you recognise this snake, spotted near Esher station earlier this morning?

It was in the middle of the footpath connecting Sandown Park Racecourse with the station in Weston Green.

The reptile was green, about 14 to 16 inches long and had yellow markings on its neck and a pale yellow underbelly.

The Esher resident who spotted the snake and sent in the photographic evidence said: "It was right in the middle of the path near the station end.

"At first I thought it was a rubber toy snake, but I prodded it with a stick and it moved.

"I then hooked it up with the stick and moved it to the safety of the shrubbery on the side of the path.

"It's lucky my wife wasn't there with me, otherwise she'd have had a fit.

"It's definitely not an adder and it's perhaps too small to be a grass snake. If it was a grass snake, it must have been a young one. Maybe it was a pet and someone has thrown it out?

"I showed the picture to one of the taxi drivers at the station and he suggested it might have been a viper."

Do you know what kind of snake it was? Have you been searching for him? Contact Jonathan Portlock on 020 8744 4273