sensesonfire wrote:I never kill snakes in their natural environment venomous or non-venomous. I see a snake slithering across the road I slow down to let it pass. There are exceptions though, my parents had a large Dugite domiciled in their backyard. This bugger had eaten my Mum's prized Northern Territory parrots including the fledgeling chicks. She was bending down to investigate one of the dead adult birds when the snake struck out at her. Didn't see the snake because the sun was in her eyes, luckily the cage wire was a barrier. She then realised why birds were strangely decreasing in numbers.
I believe it also killed an orphaned kangaroo joey Mum was caring for in the yard. Discovered the snake sunning itself on the top of a rockery one morning, as soon as it saw me it headed straight for a hole in the rocks. I knew it would return so about half an hour later I very quietly returned with my .22 rifle even with a bullet in its head it still made a b-line for the hole so I had to grab it by the tail and yank it out while it was still trying to have a go at me.
The next door neighbours three young kids regularly played on the other side of the fence right next to where the snake was hanging out so it had to go.
I have had some really interesting face offs with snakes over the years this is just one of them.
Hi Senses, some more interesting snake stories, surprises me what I learn on these forums.
I'm over her on the east coast so I don't know that much about WA's fauna and flora.
Up until your posts I didn't know about ''Dugites'' they sound just as bad as Browns.
In the 1980's there was an aussie band from west oz called the Dugites.
Didn't know they named themselves after a snake.
T.
Nice trivia skills there Tuckeroo! " in your car" was the Dugites big song.
Did that song go - in your car, car, car, in your car, car, car, I think I remember it.
Thats the one Tuckeroo. Just watched it on youtube...and echo beach too!
This snake thread is very interesting. Snakes is something everyone deals with except kiwis of course or is that a myth as well?
