Backyard wildlife

Post by **Lisbeth** » Thu Dec 05, 2013 11:38 am

Mousie! Fascinating, but I'd rather not have it in my backyard

Post by **okie** » Thu Dec 05, 2013 11:39 am

Hmmm..... certainly step carefully around that fellow

Post by **BluTuna** » Thu Dec 05, 2013 11:49 am

mouseinthehouse wrote:SO has a rather alarming casualness of manner around the world's second most venomous snake, the Eastern Brown Snake! After quite a wet winter and spring we have our own small wetland on our property where SO found this beauty a couple of weeks ago. :)

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WOW, that's one MEAN looking snake! I don't fancy having that in my back yard.

Nan has just run away screaming

Post by **BluTuna** » Thu Dec 05, 2013 11:51 am

Lisbeth wrote:BT, you manage to get all the brilliancy of the colors and a fantastic contrast

It's amazing what Photoshop can do

Post by **mouseinthehouse** » Thu Dec 05, 2013 12:06 pm

Yep they are a mean looking snake with that hard black eye. We have a lot of them in this area. Generally they want to keep away from you or the dogs but... On the farm I used to work at up the road which was a racehorse training stables, we always had them around in spring and early summer (all the mice and rats coming to the grain stores). The beloved Jack Russell/Fox terrier x female there got bitten three times. The first two times we were there and got her to the vet and anti-venom treatment ($1000 per time!). The third time last year everyone was away at the races. Came back, dead snake and dead doggie on the back porch.

Once I was feeding out hay, got off the quad bike and a brown snake slithered past my toes...eek.

SO lay down on the ground about 10 feet from this one to get the shot.

When I posted that on Facebook our eldest son replied: 'Fark that! is all I can say'

Post by **Lisbeth** » Thu Dec 05, 2013 12:43 pm

There is another next to him, only that one is a real branch with head and all

Post by **Flutterby** » Thu Dec 05, 2013 2:22 pm

Stunning pics BC!!

mith...your SO is one brave man!!

You're also pretty brave to live in a place where these snakes are so common!!

Post by **Super Mongoose** » Thu Dec 05, 2013 2:23 pm

Great pics of the snake Mouse and awesome to see one in a backyard!

Post by **nan** » Thu Dec 05, 2013 5:14 pm

beautiful snakes

poor little dog

I want to avoid ONLY Sp...er

Post by **okie** » Thu Dec 05, 2013 7:49 pm

mouseinthehouse wrote:...... When I posted that on Facebook our eldest son replied: 'Fark that! is all I can say'

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