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| They're likely ravenous after all the rain, which stiffled their hunting activity. Just like you! |
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| Temp and food supply I suppose, I'm no expert on them. The guy across the road has 4 pet snakes and he was the one we went to when we got the call from the O's mess, for some reason when someone finds a snake in their yard, the first thing they do is ring the dog handlers If they find a stray dog I can help but a snake! I think its great seeing them, I've seen very few out hunting, two Black snakes down south and only one Tiapan up here. We see a few when I'm at work, yesterday was an unusual day however. We do get small pythons in the dog kennels now and then, as they chase the small frogs that hang around there. |
| Posts: 8069 | Location: Bloody Queensland where every thing is 20 years behind the rest of Australia! | Registered: 25 January 2001 |
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| Best way to bag a snake is to get a naked Sheila and have her dance. Works for me.....
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| Posts: 403 | Location: CANADA | Registered: 06 April 2004 |
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So how do you relocate a snake anyway, with a 12 guage?
Nope, it was caught and put in a bag then released out bush....I like your thinking but |
| Posts: 8069 | Location: Bloody Queensland where every thing is 20 years behind the rest of Australia! | Registered: 25 January 2001 |
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| Muzza, You'll be lucky to see one at all,if you do it will be when you least expect it. ..but going into Cane is just looking for trouble. FYI Red Belly Blacks love water,and are mostly seen around creeks. |
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| Muzza, On banana platations you get snakes dropping out of the platic bags that surround the bunches when you go to pick them. They are fairly sluggish in the morning and I would say the great perecentage of these are intorduced to Mr Cane Knife. Most of the snakes we find in the north are Taipans..just ask anyone. I must have seen green taipans, red bellied taipans and even a taipan that fell to the ground and looked suspicously like it it was being propelled by four legs as it scuttled through the trash. I never worry about snakes out bush.For every one you see you have probably stepped over several others and never knew it. Of course I may die by snake bite one year ... |
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| Posts: 8069 | Location: Bloody Queensland where every thing is 20 years behind the rest of Australia! | Registered: 25 January 2001 |
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| Snakes - i like them. Hubby dont agree with me on that though. Ive met a few out hunting (tiger,black,tiapan,brown/KB)and even walking to school,(copperhead, tigers),many yrs ago and the worst would be the king brown. Sure the inland tiapan or ,fierce snake, is the most 'venomous' - Land snake - but i dont believe it to be the 'deadliest' because it doesnt seem to bite as easily/often as others. Those K/Browns are just plain, big, nasty buggers. |
| Posts: 227 | Location: Australia. | Registered: 23 March 2004 |
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| Do the King Brown snakes wear cowboy hats and shoot pistols.....( sorry FC ) Thanks for all the good information on snakes , at least no-one has mentioned the most predictable one of all , the one eyed trouser snake , but I have been expecting the subject to be "raised " by someone before now ..( think pictures of Bakes in the shower , eh FC ). Thanks for the links Bakes , at least now I will know what to look out for in my wanderings. Now if you guys were to import squirrels they would be worth looking for... |
| Posts: 4471 | Location: Eltham , New Zealand | Registered: 13 May 2002 |
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| Posts: 4471 | Location: Eltham , New Zealand | Registered: 13 May 2002 |
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We have snake ID posters all over the section and a hand held one in the vehicles. You soon get to know whats what ie. venomous/python.
Bakes most people prefer not to use ID cards when they see a snake since it interferes with explaining how the various visible factors link it to being a taipan.
I'm not doubting what you guys had in your case, but honestly I've often thought that if the amount of taipans reported was coupled with their reputation for extreme aggresiveness, Australia would have no people living in it.
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| Yeah Bakes, and officer gets mentioned in bloody despatches for showing leadership! Don't start me!! |
| Posts: 1275 | Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | Registered: 02 May 2002 |
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So how do you relocate a snake anyway, with a 12 guage?
Forked stick just behind the head to hold it.
But as a snake can strike up to two-thirds of its body length away and if its a 6-foot, it had better be a long stick or you had better be quick.
Double barreled stick works better.
NitroX you just reminded me of a story....
When we were younger and my brothers were in High School one of them was a camp counselor for a weekend (had to do with them needing a male counselor and his girlfriend also working there that weekend) Anyway this was for 4th grade kids if I remember, and this 4 foot rattlesnake slithered into the center of the camp. Anyway, my brother said he was worried with it being rather big and the small kids all around so he got a stick and killed it. I asked how long was the stick and he said,"about twice as long as the snake".
We agreed that was a good rule of thumb to have.
Of course nowadays rattlesnakes are a protected species here in Illinois so I don't know how that would be dealt with. |
| Posts: 7774 | Location: Between 2 rivers, Middle USA | Registered: 19 August 2000 |
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| Bakes, used to have a 'Childrens python' when i was a bit younger - friendly little bugger (seriously!!) - you wouldn't happen to know if it's still legal to keep them as pets? |
| Posts: 1275 | Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | Registered: 02 May 2002 |
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| Thanks Bakes, Katherine's a bit far to go to buy a snake, but I'll check out the local shops. |
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| In Vic snakes are protected and you can only kill them if they are a threat. I once had a wildlife officer tell me he considered any snake in the same state as him a threat. |
| Posts: 787 | Location: Melbourne, Australia | Registered: 15 January 2002 |
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