Look what I just found!!!

[Charlie]

I just stepped outside to have a smoke (barefoot) and found this on my front verandah, my guess was brown, but it kinda looks like a Coastal Taipan too....what do ya reckon ven experts?

 

[Chappy]

I dont know what it is but i would be staying clear of it and leaving him be!!!

 

[Charlie]

Yeah ive got a big lens, after I saw him I stayed quite a distance back, he's moved on now, only prob is I dont know where.

 

[colinandbec]

wow. lucky you seen it. looks like some breed of brown to me, maybe a mulga we get heaps of browns around here we seen a 7 foot brown snake skin on my father in laws property the other day god knows where thesnake is.DD

 

[andyscott]

I reckon you put shoes on.

 

[arbok]

awsome!... looks like a brown

 

[Aslan]

Absolutely an Eastern Brown - some nice shots too...

 

[Charlie]

I reckon you put shoes on.

Hehe it was the first thing I did My dads been fully envenomated twice by browns, it's not pretty.

 

[Charlie]

wow thats awsome, id love to have eastern browns in my backyard

I personally prefer them a bit further away than that, dont get me wrong they are beautiful creatures, but that's just a bit close.

 

[arbok]

I personally prefer them a bit further away than that, dont get me wrong they are beautiful creatures, but that's just a bit close.

mmm i love them and love seeing them but stepping on one wouldnt be fun lol

 

[craig.a.c]

Looks to be a brown. Good looking one at that.

 

[snake_boy]

i would say a brown and yes please put on some shoes

 

[Jozz]

Yes, definately a brownie. Been alot around here in the last 2 weeks

 

[disasterpiece7.0]

Eastern brown, beauty too. How big?

 

[Jonno from ERD]

As others have said, it's definitely an Eastern Brown Pseudonaja textilis. There has only been 3 confirmed Coastal Taipans found in NSW - it would be very exciting if you found one!

 

[snakes01]

he is awsome put some shoes on next time though haha..i have heaps of venomous snakes around mine...i have found many browns a few RBBS and also some taipans too...although late last year i found a beautiful 8 foot coastal in a tree around our pool.

 

[notechistiger]

looks like some breed of brown to me, maybe a mulga we get heaps of browns around here we seen a 7 foot brown snake skin on my father in laws property the other day god knows where thesnake is.DD

Colinandbec, a mulga is a kind of black snake (Pseudochis australis), even though it's called a "king brown snake". Also, snake skin stretches, so the snake itself is probably not seven feet.

It's a very nice snake. Wish I got venomous snakes where I live. We've gotten a red belly, two muglas and three eastern browns (one a het juvenile that was about 30 cm long and had people panicking) at my school in the last two years, while I've only had one python, a couple of frogs and hundreds of toads in the last year at my house.

 

[Jonno from ERD]

Where are you based notechistiger? There aren't many places where Red Bellies and Mulgas are sympatric, and what do you mean by a het Brown Snake?

 

[jase75]

very nice Eastern Brown, you will have to watch where u step wen u duck out for a smoke !!!!!! haha

 

[notechistiger]

I'm about 20-30 minutes West of Brisbane. I didn't see either mulga, but I was told by a herper friend that they were both mulgas. This happened within three days, so speculation is that they were the same snaIke.

I'm not sure if it's a proper term, but I (and a few others, I've learned) use the "term" to desribe a snake that lacks only a little black pigment, and is still typically coloured, but consists of much more white than usual. I think that a blonde spotted could be considered a het. Maybe, maybe not, I haven't researched blonde spotteds, so I wouldn't know.

~ notechistiger.