I found it in the garden yesterday. It is about 5 inches (11cm) in length and pencil-thin, silver with the black markings. Its head is not snake-shaped and it does not rear up as snakes do when you touch it. It does look as if it has scales though but is too small to take a better picture and it also does not keep still so I can use another lens.
The head.......
Close-up of the skin...
