Snake ID

[_Jas_]

Found this little guy at work tonight, suprized to see it so active as it was 8pm and 10 degree's out. Location was just outside Orange NSW, my guess is a copperhead but not sure. Anyways i found a nice place to let him go so he wouldn't get run over.Sorry about the bad pics but all i had was my mobile.

 

[deadflesh]

I don't think it is a copperhead. Though it may be - it's hard to tell with such a tiny critter.

 

[_Jas_]

Maybe a eastern brown?

 

[deadflesh]

Hmm.... the snake you photographed seems to have a darker head.... this isnt common with eastern browns.
Where was he when you found him? Up high, or down low?

 

[junglepython2]

No idea where Orange is, but almost looks like one of the parasuta

 

[_Jas_]

Orange is near Bathurst, had a look in my book and looks alot like a parasuta dwyeri

 

[deadflesh]

Oh!
Definitely.
Probably a juvenile Parasuta.

 

[Homer]

Jas Why didn't you look in your book to start with...

 

[reptile32]

it also could be a young grey snake Hemiaspis damelii

 

[_Jas_]

Just curious to what others thought.

 

[Bench_Warmer01]

I am pretty sure it's a Curl Snake

 

[ryanharvey1993]

its an eastern small eyed snake

 

[ryanharvey1993]

it is hard to tell in the pics tho so i may be wrong

 

[redbellybite]

Looks like a crownie to me but it is hard to make out ........i am not sure wether you get crownies that far down ...........what ever it is i am glad you let the little bugger go in a safe spot.....RBB

 

[snakes01]

i thought it was a juvinile eastern brown

 

[Ryan93]

it looks completly different to the eastern small-eyed snake i caught. the one i caught was completly black but than again different regions have the same type of snakes but different colourations

 

[redbellybite]

snakes o1 it is def not a juvie brown i can tell you that ..............i just read some crowns can have almost a non existant crown so it still could be ........hope someone with alot more snake ident knowledge can answer for you.......RBB:lol:

 

[ryanharvey1993]

i have seen jet black small eyeds to light grey small eyeds in the same region

 

[Layzboy_6294]

Whatever it may be, i think its cute.

 

[Bench_Warmer01]

I just searched the whole reptile guide, it cant be a little whip snake,grey snake or small eyed..

the closest i found is a curl snake,it's size reminds me of a dwarf crowned.. any photos of underneath?