sounds like a G up
congratulations hubby
as
A) a cockatoo has nothing to fear from a brown snake that is actually attracted by the rodents it is going to eat that are a pest to the cocky and the cockys owner and you just removed your best pest controller completely out of lack of intelligence.
B) the brown snake was just trying to escape and evade and what your trying to claim completly contradicts sound scientific evidence ,read this paper on brown snake behavior " Responses of free-ranging brown snakes to encounters with humans,Whitaker & Shine (1999)"
it was a study conducted Over three years the researchers tracked and studied 40 telemetered snakes, and had opportunistic encounters with non-telemetered animals, 455 times in the study area of New South Wales.
They found that Free-ranging Brown Snakes do not usually attack people - snakes moved towards the researchers in less than 3% of the snakes studied.
also read " the defensive strike of the eastern brown snake"
i handle Wild Brown snakes almost everday of my life so i see every bit of evidence of what these creatures are really like,which alot of idiots on this forum have no idea of and make remarks like "i would have killed it too" as they are so poorly educated which is sad as you think people on this forum like snakes and would know more about brown snakes than they do.
best thing you could of done was
LEAVE THE SNAKE ALONE
this keeps you safe from the snake 100%
there is a high incidence of snake bite to idiots who feel the macho need to have to kill them
they are protected wildlife,leave them be and they will go away