"You can have the find Mr Venomous Snake" I,m going home

[tinpan]

"You can have the find Mr Venomous Snake" I,m going home

Hi all i went to a block, where the house was removed to another site.i was not there long .Got a fair pile of junk and shards,school issue medal 1887 i think??.Along the back of the block got a whisper from the deep .Took a while to dig down,when a large piece of clay moved out popped 20 inch Eastern Brown Snake.Don't laugh, this snake small yes but still the second most vemomous land snake.I only got a reasonable pic as it takes a bit time to get your cam to take pic when i left in a hurry. lol "I wonder what that snake was guarding" I don,t really care snake can have it.

tinpan and old friend brown snake

 

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[SC_hunter]

Re: "You can have the find Mr Venomous Snake" I,m going home

The only good snake is a dead snake (not potitically correct) but there are plenty of non killer snakes to eat mice. kil it take its treasure and eat it and laugh! Mike

Crikey.....lol

 

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[ivan salis]

Re: "You can have the find Mr Venomous Snake" I,m going home

is it like a tiapan ? nasty beastie---but hows about those tiny little purple ringed octopus around the darwin area--plus those 20 ft saltwater crocs---great whites ---lots of things over there can put you "down under" the ground that is. gotta be very careful where you stick your hands near holes in the ground --"trap door" spiders as an added bonus.

 

[K-Man]

Re: "You can have the find Mr Venomous Snake" I,m going home

something like that happen when i went to kentucky to visit. I went fishing with someppl and i had a fish got it half way out of the water when a copperhead decided it was supper time and took it from me.

 

[Yarrum]

Re: "You can have the find Mr Venomous Snake" I,m going home

That's a nasty beasty Tin. Only one more deadly is the rare Australian Fierce Snake which is related to the Taipan, (its mother in law I think)
Do you know that we in Australia, have the worlds top 10 deadly snakes. I thought the Black Mamba would be in that 10 but apparently not.
Would be more than happy to share the blighters round, don't wanna be greedy now do we
Keep safe an HH

 

[EDDE]

Re: "You can have the find Mr Venomous Snake" I,m going home

Hey, Tin... fangs for another great post!

WA WAO

 

[BioProfessor]

Re: "You can have the find Mr Venomous Snake" I,m going home

This thread may be a good place to address the encounter of snakes in a general sense. As a biologist, I understand their place in the ecosystem. As such, I almost never kill a snake unless it is me or the snake. We don't have much to worry about here in Minnesota but I grew up in Georgia and have great respect for copperheads, cottonmouths, Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake, etc. If the battle is snake against man with shovel, snake loses most of the time.

For those of us whose hobby takes us into the field, I think we have the responsibility to know a poisonous snake from a harmless one. There are usually only a few you have to worry about and learning what there look like doesn't take too long and is good for the environment in the long run. So if you encounter a snake, it doesn't get killed just because it is a snake and you happen upon it.

If I am hunting around an occupied house and come upon a poisonous snake, I try to remove the snake rather than kill it. If it can't be removed then it should be destroyed to protect the lives and health of the people and animals living there. I always ask the owner of the property first because some people have no problem with a poisonous snake around their property as long as they know about it. They understand their importance and sometimes their rarity.

The subject of rarity should enter the picture. The wholesale killing of all snakes is never a positive thing. Chopping the heads off garter snakes is just not good. It is like the killing of predatory birds. Some people shoot them on sight - hawks, owls, eagles, whatever.

So what are we to do??

Daryl

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Re: "You can have the find Mr Venomous Snake" I,m going home

Hi all i went to a block, where the house was removed to another site.i was not there long .Got a fair pile of junk and shards,school issue medal 1887 i think??.Along the back of the block got a whisper from the deep .Took a while to dig down,when a large piece of clay moved out popped 20 inch Eastern Brown Snake.Don't laugh, this snake small yes but still the second most vemomous land snake.I only got a reasonable pic as it takes a bit time to get your cam to take pic when i left in a hurry. lol "I wonder what that snake was guarding" I don,t really care snake can have it.

tinpan and old friend brown snake

Looks like Mr. Brown Snake is in no condition to put up a fight. Generally, they don't lunge from a belly up position. You get a lot more nasties and bities than we do in the U.S. I've never seen an Timber Rattlesnake and that is our most "common" venomous snake hereabouts.

I can't think of a better anti-snake tool than a metal detector. The coil is large, wide and flat and you can block or press them into the soil allowing you to back away . . . and that is all that is necessary.

They scare the puddin out of you, though. No doubt about that. Had a big (more than four foot!) Black Rat Snake say "hello & goodbye" on a trail along the old Erie Canal and startled the lint out of my belly-button, I'll tell you.

 

[MUD(S.W.A.T)]

Re: "You can have the find Mr Venomous Snake" I,m going home

Yes, lets please refrain from killing the wildlife. Seriously, if it is putting human lives in danger its no excuse to kill it. Just call your Animal Control Center and they will remove it unharmed. Everything living fears death so everything living admires life, Please respect nature for it supports us too. Us treasure hunters are ones that I feel are looked at as good for nature. Cleaning up trash and litter and taking care of our holes. Killing things of nature kinda breaks this bond so please...

Keep it nature friendly and HH!!