Friday

March 4, 2016

Close encounter with a juvenile Common Brown Snake.

14 comments:

  1. Nice animal - but then I dont have him as a neighbour!

    Cheers - Stewart M - Melbourne

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  2. I have always liked snakes but then Ours aren't poisonous well one is but not very.

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  3. I keep my distance from these guys.

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  4. If it was seen in my youth like that, it would have an instant death sentence. They are now protected, but my instinct to kill snakes is still there. Such a perfect position for a head chop with a spade. Apparently in spite of us humans killing them willy nilly when we saw them, they never became an endangered species. Now in my more mature years, I have struck a moral deal. If I don't harass you, Mr Snake, then please leave me alone.

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  5. As I see the trick is it looks really friendly with peaceful colors...

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  6. Pretty little chap but best kept at a distance. I have always had a soft spot for snakes on conditions I recognise what they are! Diane

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  7. Sigh. I don't do snakes well. In one of our houses a red-bellied black lived under the front steps. For about nine months of the year I only used the back door.
    I CAN see their elegance of beauty. From a distance.

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  8. He looks like a giant earthworm to me...LOL

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    1. He is actually the second most venomous land snake in the world, so one to be very wary of. Even as a juvenile his bite is highly venomous and can be fatal.

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  9. We just have harmless little garden snakes. I have to watch out for them when I mow the lawn...

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  10. The pose is so innocent looking.

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  11. I'm not swapping the brown for the black we had the other day.....

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  12. Oh boy, you have snakes like this.
    I am already afraid the idea that I have to face it.

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  13. sadly i have 2 under my hay rounds, but the owls are now hanging around
    hay = mice = snake = owls = look where you step !!!!

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