Bird watching in Darwin - Take Care

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BajanAlan
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Bird watching in Darwin - Take Care

Yesterday morning. 

timmo
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You're "safe" Alan, - it's not a salty... cheeky

Cheers
Tim
Brisbane

BajanAlan
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Still 10' long! Can give nasty bite.

Araminta
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no worries, you could have one of those in your gardenwink (I have Tigers, Copperheads, red-bellied Blacksnakes, the lot living in my garden. I love them all. They are beaiutiful)

M-L

Woko
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Treat them all with respect is my motto.

Chris F
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You can keep your crocs and little (!) snakes guys'n'gals.surprise

We have snakes that climb ladders!

This beautiful Coastal Python came out of a hole in the garden bed just next to our back steps, meandered across the garden through the groundcover, and then lifted it's head and proceeded to climb the ladder. We couldn't see how big or thick it was until it was part way up the ladder.

We were both standing on the back steps watching it (you can see the open door - hubby was standing on the steps the whole time and I've had to crop him out to get the snake in).

By the time I thought to get the camera and raced back outside the snake's head and probably about a third of it's body had disappeared into the gutter.

Ladder has been moved. cool

BajanAlan
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Is this a case of 'Mine is bigger than yours'?

Chris F
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Never wink

timmo
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BajanAlan wrote:

Still 10' long! Can give nasty bite.

Haha... hence the cheeky smile at the end smiley.

Let's just say I wouldn't be hanging around... except to try and get a good pic or two.

Cheers
Tim
Brisbane

Araminta
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Aren't Pythons nonvenomous? Same can't be said about any of the snakes around my placedevil

M-L

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Chris F wrote:

Ladder has been moved. cool

that's what I would do to keep him on the roof or in the gutters or looking for a loose tile to get into the roof space

Peter

Chris F
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We did leave it there for another day to give him/her a chance to come back down again, then moved it. There is a very big tree overhanging the verandah which we think he/she uses normally.

Annual pest control guy came around about a week later, warned him to be on the lookout as we had seen this beautiful creature.

He checked the roof space and gutters, no sign of anything. yes

Woko
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I hope it didn't get into your roof cavity via a loose reptile.

Chris F
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I'm guttered the pest guy didn't find him.

rawshorty
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I'll see your 10' freshy and raise you a 15' saltywink(Annan river Cooktown @64mm)


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laurius
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But it's more scary when you are out for a walk looking up for birds and one of those creatures decides to take a sun bath on a track. I noticed it so close that I had to back off. It didn't look very friendly - rose it's head and slowly crawled away looking at me. Don't know was it poisonous or not but it wasn't very pleasant :)

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Laurius

timmo
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I'd say it was poisonous - looks like a tiger snake to me.

Cheers
Tim
Brisbane

laurius
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timmo wrote:

I'd say it was poisonous - looks like a tiger snake to me.

Oh... The moral is - don't forget to look down :)

Laurius

Araminta
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..and do wear big boots and make a noise while walking. I think about that a lot when I'm sneaking up on birds.We do have them all, Tiger-, Copperheads and Red-bellies Blacksnakes. But the last Brown- snake I saw, was more than 20 years ago. My favourite dog ever, a Blue Heeler called Napoleon got bitten by a Tiger, but survived. I took him to the Vet quickly. (Didn't get any anti venine, it was just to expensive, sorry dog, I didn't have $1200. But the snake didn't inject a full dosage , only a small amount. The dog looked as if it wasn't going to make it, but recovered after one night in a small cage and kept quiet)

Just keep an eye out for snakes, they are not waiting to jump at you to bite, they would rather get away from you. Give them a chance and they will.

M-L

cassie.c87
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I think I should count myself lucky, the worst I have come across is nasty green ant's lol

BajanAlan
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This mornings viewings: One Snake and one Saltie

Chris F
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