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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: Rumpig on October 29, 2013, 06:37:47 PM
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here's a few pics of the snake i found at the front gate when i got home this arvo. i relocated it back next door in the jungle / yard where it came from. can't say i've seen it before in the nearly 15 years we've lived here, have only ever seen a small green tree snake in our yard a few years back and that's it.
(http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk237/qld-bundy-drinker/tn_IMG_8152_zpsfa8deee3.jpg) (http://s281.photobucket.com/user/qld-bundy-drinker/media/tn_IMG_8152_zpsfa8deee3.jpg.html)
(http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk237/qld-bundy-drinker/tn_IMG_8146_zps0e4047de.jpg) (http://s281.photobucket.com/user/qld-bundy-drinker/media/tn_IMG_8146_zps0e4047de.jpg.html)
(http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk237/qld-bundy-drinker/71af8674-6933-418c-8bde-935382870c40_zps5ae9a2ba.jpg) (http://s281.photobucket.com/user/qld-bundy-drinker/media/71af8674-6933-418c-8bde-935382870c40_zps5ae9a2ba.jpg.html)
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Nice looking snake Mal.
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Nice looking snake Mal.
it certainly hasn't been going hungry by the looks of it
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Nice looking snake Mal.
Is that prison talk?
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No rats at your place, unlike that marschy. ;D
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Is that prison talk?
;D ;D :D :cup:
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Nice python
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Is that prison talk?
;D ;D ;D
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Quite handsome, isn't he.
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Quite handsome, isn't he.
Now that's got to be prison talk. ;D ;D ;D
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Didn't you clean out under your house the other day.. Might have been under there just chilling out.. ;D
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Didn't you clean out under your house the other day.. Might have been under there just chilling out.. ;D
been a few times i've heard noises in the roof space and wondered if a snake was up there...could very well have been...lol.
when i got home it's tail was still sticking through the fence, so you could tell it came from next door (their yard is a jungle..used to be gardens but well and truely overgrown and out of control these days). the thing wasn't moving and just laid in the one spot for nearly an hour before i moved it on back next door again. i wonder what the neighbour will say when i show her the pic of it....lol...i'll tell her to keep an eye on her cat (but only because she's responsible enough to have a cat run bolted to the sides of her house and not the type to let it go into neighbours properties). hopefully it'll get the cat from behind our place instead and stop it crapping in my backyard, maybe i should have just moved the snake to the backyard to lay in wait...lol
funnily enough.... when i mentioned the snake to my brother this arvo, he said he has a similar sized one under next doors house at the moment. it's laying there digesting a possum it caught in a tree in his front yard the night previous.
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harmless python , i hope you dont take to it with a shovel , he's harmless , once he gets rid of his feed he will be on his way , the only threat it might be would be towards the cat ... lol what a shame
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harmless python , i hope you dont take to it with a shovel , he's harmless , once he gets rid of his feed he will be on his way , the only threat it might be would be towards the cat ... lol what a shame
no i didn't kill the snake rockman as i know it's harmless. i gave it a gentle prod with a length of timber to move it back through the fence into next doors yard where it came from (in the first pic it's actually making it's way to go back through the fence). the yard next door is an absolute jungle, who knows what the heck is living in there...lol
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What a beauty.
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, once he gets rid of his feed he will be on his way ,
Maybe, maybe not.
We have several resident pythons that return for hibernation to the same roof access in the granny flat year after year.
So much for Rooftop Tents being slither proof ;D
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Jesus that's a big snake
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Is there an easy way to tell the difference between the friendly and dangerous snakes? I've always thought if their head is wider than their body they're non venomous.
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Is there an easy way to tell the difference between the friendly and dangerous snakes? I've always thought if their head is wider than their body they're non venomous.
Not true.
Body definitely wider than head ;D
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Now that's got to be prison talk. ;D ;D ;D
wouldn't you like to know... but as the nice man said, i have the right to remain silent.
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wouldn't you like to know... but as the nice man said, i have the right to remain silent.
;D ;D ;D. Now I've met you so I do know. Lol
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Got back home from Cunnamulla after the last school hols and found this fella at the front door.
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looks like our friend is here to stay.....got home this arvo and it was sunning itself in the exact same spot again (must love the afternoon setting sun and besser blocks reflecting the heat), so i raced upstairs and got the kids to come down and look at it which they were excited to do (they weren't home last time to see it, so missed out). after a while of us all checking it out, it decided to move on and went back through the fence again to next door, no coaxing needed this time 8) 8)
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Cool mate. Good learning for your kids too.
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Is there an easy way to tell the difference between the friendly and dangerous snakes? I've always thought if their head is wider than their body they're non venomous.
There's a bloke does traveling snake shows. Part of his spiel is...venomus snakes have 3 tiny dots on the top of their head, but who's going to get close enough to count them? ;D
The best thing to do is to just leave them alone if you come across one. The majority of snake bites are from people trying to kill them!
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We get a few every year at home ranging from the venemous browns and taipans to tree snakes and the pythons, came across this fella a few months back on my driveway.
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^^^ my guess would be that it's a friendly.
Good chance I'll die from a snake bite though lol.
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we seem to have a new resident in the yard....it was back yesterday arvo, this morning, and this afternoon again. been trying to get some good close up pics, but it seems to like the spot behind the wire fence, so not having much luck getting any closer then about a metre and half from it.... i need a bigger zoom lense >:(
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Don't we all mate. Lol
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here's todays pic that i took this morning, just needed it to stick the tounge out...lol...the one time it did that this morning my pic was out of focus >:( .....
(http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk237/qld-bundy-drinker/tn_IMG_8153_zps3855bd3e.jpg) (http://s281.photobucket.com/user/qld-bundy-drinker/media/tn_IMG_8153_zps3855bd3e.jpg.html)
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There's a bloke does traveling snake shows. Part of his spiel is...venomus snakes have 3 tiny dots on the top of their head, but who's going to get close enough to count them? ;D
The best thing to do is to just leave them alone if you come across one. The majority of snake bites are from people trying to kill them!
Funny you say that as last year just before we went on a trip to Moreton island a snake guy was at our mall and the kids took alot of intrest in what he had to say (if only they listened to me) anyway we ended up buying a snake survival kit from him, basically a streachy bandage.
So the next week we went on our trip and this one late afternoon the kids and I were walking down to the water to watch the sunset from Ben-Ewa campground and as we crossed the "bridge" my kids yelled out "Dad it's a Redbelly Black" I was like how the hell did you guys remember that from a 2min show a week ago - sure enough this rather large RBB crossed inbetween myself and my kids, they knew from the show to stay perfectly still and let him go about his business which he did.
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Living in the Mid-North of SA I cleaned up the backyard on the weekend to avoid the potential for snakes now it's getting hotter. (Brown Snakes and Red Bellied) Plus it also gave room for The Boy to do "circle work" on his sisters Quad. As I was cleaning, I saw a Blue Tounged lizard. Picked it up and showed the 2 kids. They were intrigued and had a pat. I let it go in next doors yard. Nice long grass and no dogs. Then later on I had a chat with them about snakes. The very first response was "pick it up and pat it". Fearless kids, but a lot to learn. They now know to turn and walk away.