reptilerob
Active Member
Firstly, i appologise for posting a photo of a dead snake, like most people here i much prefer to find live ones, but my wife and I found this dead small snake in one of our herping areas, and we are not 100% sure what it is.
Personally, i believe its a baby eastern brown snake, but my wife believes that eastern browns this size are usually much lighter in colour, and can have darker patterns, which i also know is true.
If you look closely you can see the head is slightly darker than the rest of its body. Could it be a baby copperhead? I have only seen 1 baby brown in my life and it was very light brown, almost yellow. I have seen a few baby blacks, and a baby copperhead and they were the same colours as the adults.
The snake is about 30-35cm long, and about 15km NW of mt beauty in NE victoria. In this area we have found RBBS, highland copperheads, tiger snakes and eastern browns.
If anybody can tell us what it is it would be greatly appreciated.
Regards
Robbie.
Personally, i believe its a baby eastern brown snake, but my wife believes that eastern browns this size are usually much lighter in colour, and can have darker patterns, which i also know is true.
If you look closely you can see the head is slightly darker than the rest of its body. Could it be a baby copperhead? I have only seen 1 baby brown in my life and it was very light brown, almost yellow. I have seen a few baby blacks, and a baby copperhead and they were the same colours as the adults.
The snake is about 30-35cm long, and about 15km NW of mt beauty in NE victoria. In this area we have found RBBS, highland copperheads, tiger snakes and eastern browns.
If anybody can tell us what it is it would be greatly appreciated.
Regards
Robbie.