Its snake season

[GuyG]

Its well and truly snake season, like Inc we had one in the house in the last couple of weeks. Fairly sure that one was only a Carpet snake. It was in the bathroom, when I saw it I exited closing the door behind me, but made sure the window was open so it could escape. Thankfully it did.

This morning I went to empty the pool skimmer box and found the following sunning itself on the grass. Can anyone ID it? It was close to a metre long and around an inch thick in the middle. Depending on what it is, ie if its dangerous, is it best to get a snake specialist in to find and remove it or leave it alone. Where it was lying and where it went is within a metre or 2 of the pool where kids etc will be during the summer months. Based on what a friend has said I was probably too close to when taking the pictures.

[sheerluck]

Its well and truly snake season, like Inc we had one in the house in the last couple of weeks. Fairly sure that one was only a Carpet snake. It was in the bathroom, when I saw it I exited closing the door behind me, but made sure the window was open so it could escape. Thankfully it did.

This morning I went to empty the pool skimmer box and found the following sunning itself on the grass. Can anyone ID it? It was close to a metre long and around an inch thick in the middle. Depending on what it is, ie if its dangerous, is it best to get a snake specialist in to find and remove it or leave it alone. Where it was lying and where it went is within a metre or 2 of the pool where kids etc will be during the summer months. Based on what a friend has said I was probably too close to when taking the pictures.

Looks like a Brown, in my very limited experience of them.

[GuyG]

I have found the following website which you can email pics to to get snakes ID'd. Awaiting reply

Snake Identification (http://www.snakecatchers.com.au/Snake_ID.php)

[shorty943]

Going by the slightly yellow band behind the neck, I'd say Eastern Brown.
Good one to stay a little back from, only about 9 times more venomous than the King Cobra.

[Redback]

Looks a bit dark to be a brown, Coastal Taipan maybe??

Baz.

[JamesB71]

Its a "bad" brown snake.

You can tell a "good" one because it comes in two pieces.

:angel:

[Redback]

May even be this little fellow

Carpenteria Whip Snake, Habitat SE QLD

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2013/08/128.jpg

Still think it's a Coastal Taipan, looking at the Snake ID posted above.
http://www.snakecatchers.com.au/Coastal_Taipan.php

[Gumnut]

Hi,

It does indeed look quite like an Eastern Brown Snake, which can deliver a remarkably swift playful nip from a fair distance.

The first strike may, if the target is very lucky indeed, be just for show, and not be loaded with venom. Some sources reckon up to 50% of bites are blanks, if you are feeling lucky.

However, the venom is particularly potent, #2 in the world rankings, and luckily there is an effective and widely available antidote.

I reccomend leaving them alone if outside, not getting too close to take photos, and remove any source of food or habitation for rats or mice.

Keep a broad elastic bandage handy, familiarise yourself with current snake bite first aid treatment, and, if someone is bitten, or even struck at, don't muck about:

Render first aid, call an ambulance and don't panic.

Remember, there is no shame at all in a false alarm in cases where sudden death is a very real possibility and not just a game strategy, and no huge cost to worry about if you keep ambulance insurance.

A very aggro python bit me at least three times in very quick succession recently, and I did not even realise I had been bitten til the blood started leaking out of my arm! I had never been bitten before, and I was very surprised that I could only see the fang marks clearly while the bites were bleeding. When the bleeding stopped and I cleaned them, the bites were very hard to see.

Gumnut

[digger]

Could it be an Australian Copperhead?

Austrailian Copper-head (http://snake-planet.webege.com/australian_copperhead.html)

**EDIT** Just realised you are in Brisbane...not likely a copperhead then.

[GuyG]

The reply from the Snakecatcher website is:

The first 3 pics are of an eastern brown snake, Highly venomous.

[tonic]

Completly harmless, will eat sugar cubes from your hand and they love a scratch on the belly. Please leave your Defender to me:D

[Hendrous]

Looks like a brown to me. You'll hear people say they are more of afraid of you than you are of them, but I've watched one just like this make a beeline for me by swimming across a four metre wide river. I didn't hang around to see what it wanted but I don't believe it was just being curious. I've heard browns and tigers can be quite agro if they are nesting. Time to call in a snake removal expert and in the meantime wear jeans, boots and if it makes you feel more secure carry a shotgun (although this may worry your neighbours more than the brown snake!).

[incisor]

seen one chase a grown and very fit man for well over 100 metres once

he fairly **** himself first time he looked around and it was about two feet away.

he made it away from the snake, only to run into a beehive

wasnt his finest hour :p

[DefenderJim]

Agree it looks like a brown,

Not heaps friendly in my experience, i had one strike at me during breeding season last yeah, granted i almost jumped on it's head. Thankfully it missed since we were camping just outside of Morgan and nearest hospital is an hour and a half away..

Jim

[VM_Motori]

Living in Alice Springs for many years came across a many a Brown snake if they been baking in the sun yeah be very careful but if cool not so the case very docile (but still don't mess around with them.)

Last season tail end of summer we found this in my partners salon

https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s720x720/310016_489421107781611_1426224418_n.jpg

7 Iron for a 7 ft Python

Snakes and Lizards are a favorite creature of mine just hate SPIDERS.... Nearly departed earth from one of them.....

[GuyG]

Completly harmless, will eat sugar cubes from your hand and they love a scratch on the belly. Please leave your Defender to me:D

Thanks :)

I think my sister/nephew probably has dibs on the Defender considering Dad doesn't like it:cool: from a comfort point of view:wasntme:

[Saitch]

Keelbacks look just like a brown but have an extra loreal scale on the cheek but I wouldn't advise getting THAT close to check although keelbacks are harmless & one of few creatures that can eat young adult toads without ill affect. They like to be near water also.

[sheerluck]

It's a plague I tell ya!

http://www.couriermail.com.au/questnews/moreton/snake-catchers-busy-as-deadly-reptiles-wake-early-in-pine-rivers/story-fni9r1i7-1226705248797

[worane]

My farm in Montville was crawling with them in the 70's, They generally went one way and I the other. Had tigers and red & yellow belly blacks.
Most snakes just want to be left alone. Just watch out for tigers, Tiapans and browns though. Not good to stand over them and take pickies

[goingbush]

well thanks, this is one thread I'm not showing my wife, when we stop travelling we are moving to QLD south coast.

Have been in the bush (Vic) all my life and seen no more than 1/2 dozen snakes

[UncleHo]

We get the odd "Joe Blake" at home here,had a 5 ft Brown chase me across the yard about 15 years ago in the days that I could still run :) last visitor was a "Scaly Charlie" aka Rough Scaled Taipan,it was asleep under the front of my 2a was assisted to leave with a posthole shovel,in pieces :p

[GuyG]

The snake was caught and removed this morning. It's being relocated hopefully far enough away not to return:).