Thread: What Snake Is This

Originally Posted by td express

your a braver man than me Baz, for me to get that close to a snake would require a big ol zoom while sitting on the roof of the car...

Yep that's what I used, I always give them plenty of room

Steve Irwin I am not

Baz.

Originally Posted by td express

your a braver man than me Baz, for me to get that close to a snake would require a big ol zoom while sitting on the roof of the car...

Personally I prefer to get close enough to use open sights.

John

Originally Posted by JDNSW

Personally I prefer to get close enough to use open sights.

John

+1

Originally Posted by JDNSW

Personally I prefer to get close enough to use open sights.

John

No, thats what shotguns are for, already had to kill one of them this year. It had killed one dog and was having a go at the second.

I've caught a number of live snakes but will not comment on one by a picture. But a brown snake can be stripped like a tiger, and can be jet black like a red belly black. Often a black colored brown snake will have a lighter head to the rest of its body.
I have never seen the Copperhead snake which is in that area, hence reluctance to identify snakes from photo. But I would guess it may be a brown snake.

Back in the early 1990's the first Tiger Snake that I ever caught alive was a mid grey and had no stripes. Since I have a wall chart map showing where Australian Snakes are found and that chart showed that there are no Tiger snakes where I live, so that I did not recognise it as a Tiger Snake, and took it to a snake expert for ID. We did scale counts [I counted, he held its head] and it was definately a mainland tiger.

National Parks recorded its capture on their computer after my friend showed a Ranger this snake, as it was the first confirmed live Tiger Snake from our area. [I since caught two more tiger snakes on our place, and another one was found from my place, killed on the veranda of our house by a previous owner, well before we moved to the area, found preserved in a bottle of Metho].

He found a newspaper article that pictured another Tiger Snake after it had been killed just across the road from my house [He was studying enviromental science at Southern Cross Uni at the time, and this was done for a Uni Thesis].

I have been shown Eastern Brown Snakes both with and without stripes, and from a cream color to almost jet black. A Red Belly Black Snake is fairly harmless [but do not get bitten] but if you do not see the bright red belly do not go near one.

The brown ranks as the third most deadly in the world behind the Two Tiapans, the Inland Tiapan and the Coastal Tiapan.

Common Tigers used to be found as far up the east coast as Maryborough,QLD. Habitiat loss and the introduction of the Cane Toad drastically reduced the numbers in the last half of last century in this northern part of its range.A population that existed near Maryborough approx 20 years ago is now presumed extinct, but the species is still relatively abundant in the Border Ranges area of QLD.Colouration can be highly variable but it can be easily distinguished from most other species by its stocky build realtive to body length and broad blunt head as well as more rugose scalation.The threat dispaly involves flattening of the neck/nape to a much greater degree than most other large elapids, and is somewhat "cobraesque'. The snake pictured is a Common Tiger Snake.

Looks similar to the 6ft tiger I discovered in my compost bin that caused a large and sudden bowel evacuation.

Originally Posted by davewalk

Looks similar to the 6ft tiger I discovered in my compost bin that caused a large and sudden bowel evacuation.

Lucky you were near the compost bin, but I'll pass on your homegrown veges.