Strange eye on an aesculapian snake

[Georg Fagerlund]

Hi everybody,

Went flipping today and besides a dice snake and a few grass snakes I found a juvenile aesculapian snake. Just wondering what's in the eye? Anybody, any idea..? By the way it was just on the other side. Some kind of fungus?

Georg

[Ilian Velikov]

It might be an old eye cap that didn't fell off with the rest of the skin when the snake was shedding.

[Daniel Bohle]

Soil from hibernation?

[Mario Schweiger]

How looked the overall appearance?
Smooth or a bit rough?

For me it looks like some injury, like from mites.

Mario

[Georg Fagerlund]

To me it looked quite rough, like some old, dry clay... something like that. I first thought it was gonna shed, but the other side was normal. Maybe it was an old eye cap just like Ilian suggested.