Snakes

Bumped a tree while mowing and a big brown spun off the canopy into my lap then down onto the footplate. While it is unlikely an eastern brown will be up a tree it isn't that uncommon and this girl was big. Luckily it was just a well endowed (sic) tree snake and even more luckily I was wearing brown shorts. Snake slithered off to destinations unknown.
 
My resident snake out again enjoying the sun.
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Labcanary said:
Is it also a tick deeply embedded to the left in the photo? Or an old wound? The scales look damaged.
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We ( including lab bird in this one... Sorry) are not suggesting you kiss this snek or try to pull the parasites off... Parasites have a place in nature. Damn, we is a parasite living on a volumous pile of fat cells...... It is just an observation.

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Spanky_Ham said:
We ( including lab bird in this one... Sorry) are not suggesting you kiss this snek or try to pull the parasites off... Parasites have a place in nature. Damn, we is a parasite living on a volumous pile of fat cells...... It is just an observation.

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Definitely no snake smoochies. As @beeb said, it looks healthy enough, so the ticks don't seem to affect its ability to eat.
It's good that you and the snake respect each other's boundaries.
 
just a rock although t did see the patch on its scales and i think (Hope) its just the start of the snake shedding its scales.
 
Chriso_29er said:
Stumbled upon this gorgeous guy today, stood within about 1.5m of it while taking a photo of an echidna before I noticed it. Thought it was a red belly, but was very chill, even on a warm day. I've now been told it is a lowlands copperhead? What's your thoughts?
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If you look at the frontal scale (the middle one between the scales over the eye) you'll see it's pretty much as long as it is wide. In a lowland copperhead, that scale is much longer than it is wide. So it's not a copperhead. However, that does mean it's absolutely a red belly because tiger snakes have a similarly proportioned frontal scale...
 
I'd call it a copperhead.
silentbutdeadly said:
If you look at the frontal scale (the middle one between the scales over the eye) you'll see it's pretty much as long as it is wide. In a lowland copperhead, that scale is much longer than it is wide. So it's not a copperhead. However, that does mean it's absolutely a red belly because tiger snakes have a similarly proportioned frontal scale...
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I didn't know about the scale thing, it's a good tip. The camera angle might be making it look shorter, it's got classic copperhead colours
 
Freediver said:
I'd call it a copperhead.

I didn't know about the scale thing, it's a good tip. The camera angle might be making it look shorter, it's got classic copperhead colours
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First impressions, I would too. But the head seemed wrong so I had to check. It seems wrong for a red-belly too...

Colour is not a very good way to identify a most of our poisonous snakes. There's heaps of local and regional variation. Some brown snakes aren't brown and some tiger snakes don't have stripes.

Very good point about the camera angle. It could definitely be stuffing with things.
 
Just ran over a 0.5m snake on "Boulder" at the You Yangs (just before that janky right/left rock garden for those playing along at home) :oops:

Pretty dark colours on top, lighter underneath.

I am ass-uming lowland copperhead, but fuck knows, I was just as surprised as it was.

Had a cursory look under my socks, on my legs for any bite. Seems to be alright.

Might go and see what other surprises the other trails have in store for me.
 
fjohn860 said:
Just ran over a 0.5m snake on "Boulder" at the You Yangs (just before that janky right/left rock garden for those playing along at home) :oops:

Pretty dark colours on top, lighter underneath.

I am ass-uming lowland copperhead, but fuck knows, I was just as surprised as it was.

Had a cursory look under my socks, on my legs for any bite. Seems to be alright.

Might go and see what other surprises the other trails have in store for me.
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Is the snake OK?
 
I'm always surprised how few snakes you see at Youies. Seems like ideal habitat for them. Hope the is alright. The little ones are pretty fricken quick when they need to be so probably launched itself of into the undergrowth. As if seeing a snake on the trail isn't enough to get your heart racing, seeing one at that point and negotiating the steps/corners would be doubling-down on the raised heart rate effect!
 
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