Thread: Identifying a snake

Originally Posted by BMKal

Go the red one. It's faster .............................

Yes the red one also balanced nicely in the hand and was weight forward.

Originally Posted by Roverlord off road spares

Yes the red one also balanced nicely in the hand and was weight forward.

Don't do what my father did , years ago, out western Qld, on a sheep property. I was a little fella, playing under our low set house, dropping ants into ant-lion [ devil devils] nests, [ as you do] when a huge head appeared coming thru the garden on the side of the house . I bolted, went inside yelling " big lizard under the house!." Dad grabbed his single shot lever action rifle, and a rake, and went to investigate. It was at this point I thought perhaps I should have said " 7 foot king brown", , a very nervous time for a while, the king brown went for him, lucky Dad was quick on his feet, or he would have been a gonna. We can laugh about it now, but not then. Bob

Originally Posted by garrycol

They said this snake at the footy was a Brown Snake but certainly the brown snakes I have seen do not look like this one - any ideas.

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Does look a bit like this, Bob

Eastern brown snake. Photo: EHP
Eastern brown snake Pseudonaja textilis

Warning: Highly Venomous
The eastern brown snake varies widely in colour from light tan to almost black. The belly ranges from cream to orange with darker orange blotches. To add confusion, hatchlings may have a darker head and neck band or can have dark cross-bands along their entire length. These patterns gradually disappear with age. The eastern brown snake occurs in a variety of habitats ranging from grassland through to eucalypt forests. It is distributed throughout all but the western parts of Queensland. Active during the day, the eastern brown snake feeds on frogs, birds, mammals and reptiles. If provoked, the snake will rear up and adopt an S-shape strike posture, and will strike if cornered. It is uncommon in the settled areas of Brisbane but occasional sightings do occur. More common in bushland and rural areas of the greater Brisbane area. The eastern brown snake grows to an average length of 1.5m.

More snake facts, according to the previously cited research:

The eastern brown snake is responsible for 60% of all snake bite deaths in Australia. Immediate first aid lowers the death rate considerably but the eastern brown has small fangs and many victims do not realise they have been bitten; such was the case with the last fatality in Newcastle last year.

Regardless, only 10% of venomous snake bites result envenoming of the bite. Venom is primarily for food in killing prey and they are reticent in injecting defensively.

We have an ex-council (fell off the back of a council truck) long wood handled post hole shovel with which my wife "the Management" uses as a Javolin,and a very good shot she is, last one was a "scaley Charlie" rough scaled tiapan,which we occasionally get coming from the swamp behind our place or from the dam,instant 2 piece snake

We do not have snake catchers in the ACT as the do gooders have convinced the Government that the snakes must be protected and cannot be removed irrespective where they are.

Find a brown in the yard and you are legally obliged to leave it alone and if you call in a snake catcher from NSW (that is if they will come) they can be prosecuted for removing the snake (not killing it).

The Govt's logic is that the snake in a yard is just visiting and will move on. If the snake does hang around - has to be for a few days then you can call the Rangers and they (and only them) can move the snake on.

So people do try to kill or move the snake and get bit as they cannot get it moved.

The Greens in the ACT have had the Govt by the short and curlies for a long long time.

Garry

What the "do gooders" don't know won't hurt them

Is that like the one that was sunbaking on the road in the front of your place Ho