pigysus
Not so new Member
Hi All
I live on a 50 ace bush block west of the Clarence river a few Kilometres outside Drake in northern New South Wales. My problem isn't keeping snakes or lizards it's keeping them out of the house. The area still has it's fair share of snakes. During the warm weather, as we are having at the moment I could find Carpet snakes, red belly blacks and if I'm really looking for trouble, browns. A fairly young carpet has taken up residence under the water tower, if he's still there next year I'll have to move him on. While they work on the mice and small wild life it's Ok but when they start to fancy the chooks, it's time to move them a couple of k away. The blacks and browns stay away from the house but I did pass a good size black while swimming in our dam a week ago. I think he was watching me as closely as i watched him but he kept going and so did I. Browns are around and you need to be aware but as long as you make a bit of noise as you move around they get out of your way. People who tip toe around are more likely to be unpleasantly surprised. I've seen a number of smaller snakes but haven't been able to identify them. The carpet pythons do reach a considerable size around here but road traffic takes it toll of them as well as many other animals.
There has been an ongoing battle between a bunch of choughs and a metre long goanna for the last couple of weeks but I noticed today that the goee had finally made it to their nest. nest wrecked and dead fledgling on the ground under the tree. We've had much bigger goannas pass through.
Various small unidentified lizards in garden as well as Nobby dragons and small water dragons. Nobbies are nice little critturs, seem to be very curious and will come within inches when i'm working in the garden. Haven't seen any water dragons bigger than 6 inches though. We have gecko's in the house, Can be noisy buggers in the middle of the night. I'm not sure if they are fighting each other or chasing prey. Small ornaments get knocked over and pictures end up crooked.
We have a couple of what i believe to be old beardies on the block, they seem to like to sun themselves on the side of stumps. One would have been the best part of a metre long nose to tail. i don't know if that is large or not. I was surprised to find that they are bred in various colours. Ours are all just khaki and spiky .
i look forward to learning quite a bit more about snakes etc, if i can get some decent photos of the ones that share my home i'll post them. The 'Avatar' I use is one of the Nobbies in my garden.
cheers and a Happy new year to all
Ted
I live on a 50 ace bush block west of the Clarence river a few Kilometres outside Drake in northern New South Wales. My problem isn't keeping snakes or lizards it's keeping them out of the house. The area still has it's fair share of snakes. During the warm weather, as we are having at the moment I could find Carpet snakes, red belly blacks and if I'm really looking for trouble, browns. A fairly young carpet has taken up residence under the water tower, if he's still there next year I'll have to move him on. While they work on the mice and small wild life it's Ok but when they start to fancy the chooks, it's time to move them a couple of k away. The blacks and browns stay away from the house but I did pass a good size black while swimming in our dam a week ago. I think he was watching me as closely as i watched him but he kept going and so did I. Browns are around and you need to be aware but as long as you make a bit of noise as you move around they get out of your way. People who tip toe around are more likely to be unpleasantly surprised. I've seen a number of smaller snakes but haven't been able to identify them. The carpet pythons do reach a considerable size around here but road traffic takes it toll of them as well as many other animals.
There has been an ongoing battle between a bunch of choughs and a metre long goanna for the last couple of weeks but I noticed today that the goee had finally made it to their nest. nest wrecked and dead fledgling on the ground under the tree. We've had much bigger goannas pass through.
Various small unidentified lizards in garden as well as Nobby dragons and small water dragons. Nobbies are nice little critturs, seem to be very curious and will come within inches when i'm working in the garden. Haven't seen any water dragons bigger than 6 inches though. We have gecko's in the house, Can be noisy buggers in the middle of the night. I'm not sure if they are fighting each other or chasing prey. Small ornaments get knocked over and pictures end up crooked.
We have a couple of what i believe to be old beardies on the block, they seem to like to sun themselves on the side of stumps. One would have been the best part of a metre long nose to tail. i don't know if that is large or not. I was surprised to find that they are bred in various colours. Ours are all just khaki and spiky .
i look forward to learning quite a bit more about snakes etc, if i can get some decent photos of the ones that share my home i'll post them. The 'Avatar' I use is one of the Nobbies in my garden.
cheers and a Happy new year to all
Ted