Niall Scott
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Good morning, newbie here!
I need your expert advice to identify a snake from it's shed skin. To give you the background briefly:
We live in the northern Brisbane inner burbs (Stafford Heights) about 8 K's north from the city centre.
We've lived in our house for 6 years and never seen or found any evidence of snakes in our yard.
Over the past 5 weeks i've found shed a single snake skin once a week in our garden on the lawn near a garden bed which has large well established trees and leaf litter and mulch with some ground cover plants in the undergrowth.
The shed skins i've found (photos attached) are approx. 20 to 30cm long. From my non existent knowledge of snakes i'd have to assume they were from a baby or juvenile snake.
I showed one of them to a guy in work and he reckoned it was from a brown snake based purely on the width of scales on the belly.
From some google images searches i'm not sure if it could be a brown tree snake, eastern brown, red bellied black... or anything else for that matter(?!)
Can anyone shed some light on this for me?? (excuse the pun!) Should I get someone in to try and find it or them and get it removed (especially if it is a brown snake as I have a 5 year old son who loves to play in the yard).... any help or advice would be hugely appreciated! Sorry for the long winded first post guys n' gals!
cheers
Niall
I need your expert advice to identify a snake from it's shed skin. To give you the background briefly:
We live in the northern Brisbane inner burbs (Stafford Heights) about 8 K's north from the city centre.
We've lived in our house for 6 years and never seen or found any evidence of snakes in our yard.
Over the past 5 weeks i've found shed a single snake skin once a week in our garden on the lawn near a garden bed which has large well established trees and leaf litter and mulch with some ground cover plants in the undergrowth.
The shed skins i've found (photos attached) are approx. 20 to 30cm long. From my non existent knowledge of snakes i'd have to assume they were from a baby or juvenile snake.
I showed one of them to a guy in work and he reckoned it was from a brown snake based purely on the width of scales on the belly.
From some google images searches i'm not sure if it could be a brown tree snake, eastern brown, red bellied black... or anything else for that matter(?!)
Can anyone shed some light on this for me?? (excuse the pun!) Should I get someone in to try and find it or them and get it removed (especially if it is a brown snake as I have a 5 year old son who loves to play in the yard).... any help or advice would be hugely appreciated! Sorry for the long winded first post guys n' gals!
cheers
Niall