GBWhite
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It was a lighter colour than most but just a Mt Tambourine coastal carpet and it was much more aggressive than they usually are, did not like being removed at all.@Yellowtail, the one on cockie cage is beautiful, what is it? Jungle?
Few spent shell casings in the photo?Had a brown snake try to get in the door recently, not posting the pics here though...
Few spent shell casings in the photo?
Nah, I didn't have a semiauto. There are times when spending your later childhood shooting hundreds of toads in the neck vertebrae translates into practical self defense skills. The snake was not attacking me, but was cruising directly towards me and about to get in the door. It is one of those cases that would be translated into a snake deliberately targeting a person to kill them by the average person. All it really wanted to do is invade my home.
It would be illegal for me to tail it to move it away, as I don't pay to be authorized to do such a thing. My only legal option was to blast it. Interestingly, the local lacies didn't eat it until it started to rot and only ate the tail end.
Ofc they take dead stuff, shake it a few times and they think it’s alive@Yellowtail, did he take a pre-killed mouse or did he kill it himself? I’ve no idea whether venomous snakes accept dead prey.
I always thought SBs were mainly nocturnal like their other close relatives but this was middle of the day in a brightly lit garage, not sure if it was hanging out in there for a while or just came through open door. I'll be more careful where I put my hands in future, a guy died from an SB bite in northern NSW recently.
All Hops are potent little kritters. That guy you are referring to that died happened here in Bello a couple of years back during a big flood. He didn't treat the bite correctly and he was cut off because of the flood so emergency services were delayed getting to him. From memory it was the second death recorded from a Stephen's Banded bite. I remember Eric Worrell spending a week in hospital after a Broad Headed bite and I've had 2 friends nearly croak it from Broad Headed bites as well. Also had a couple of mates hospitalized for a few days from Pale Head bites.
That's a nice looking Stephen's there too.
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