grahamh
Well-Known Member
7:30 ring ring - hello I was given your number and told you could come and remove a big diamond python from my backyard. Ok I'll be there in about half an hour (must have a shower to wake up and a cup of tea to get me going).
The snake was up inside a pergola roof in a normal backyard. After about 20 minutes of unwrapping the snake half a dozen times and unscrewing part of the roof to lift the tin I managed to extricate this litttle beatuy. She weighed a ton (well about 7kg) and looked great so I bagged her and headed off to the release site in a bit of forest that should support her well.
I've had a few calls lately mostly RBBS and diamonds and a 1mtr green tree snake but this was the hardest to remove. Eaten by early morning mozzies and sweating like a pig by the time I left. She was very docile. The porperty owners hadn't seen one before (in their 7 years at the property) and it looks like the family down the road that used to keep a lot of chooks (just recently moved) must have been supporting this diamond with a good supply of rats (if my chook pen is anything to go by). I guess the family's move dried up the food supply so the snake moved to the new house.
http://www.aussiepythons.com/albums/album47/DPRel.sized.jpg
The snake was up inside a pergola roof in a normal backyard. After about 20 minutes of unwrapping the snake half a dozen times and unscrewing part of the roof to lift the tin I managed to extricate this litttle beatuy. She weighed a ton (well about 7kg) and looked great so I bagged her and headed off to the release site in a bit of forest that should support her well.
I've had a few calls lately mostly RBBS and diamonds and a 1mtr green tree snake but this was the hardest to remove. Eaten by early morning mozzies and sweating like a pig by the time I left. She was very docile. The porperty owners hadn't seen one before (in their 7 years at the property) and it looks like the family down the road that used to keep a lot of chooks (just recently moved) must have been supporting this diamond with a good supply of rats (if my chook pen is anything to go by). I guess the family's move dried up the food supply so the snake moved to the new house.
http://www.aussiepythons.com/albums/album47/DPRel.sized.jpg