thirty_legs's Identifications

No clitellum: 2 constrictions and a bloated tail instead

Very large (circa 20 cm) earthworm, found at night in steady rain on top of kitchen-yard wall. I thought it was an adventurous, arboreal Blind/Worm Snake at first glance in the torchlight! How the substantial fella got up the plastered metre-and-a-half high wall in pouring rain is a mystery. Possibly dropped from overhanging shrubbery? Writhed and lashed athletically when first caught, then played dead. Assuming it was trying to escape drowning, released in upper garden where flooding least likely.